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n. - Lowest support of a structure; The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; The basic assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained.

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  • If they are actually altering the reading based on some "factor" they pulled out of their fundament, that is another problem.
  • Is it just me, or wouldn't you take 'fundament' to mean bumhole, rather than - ahem - appendage?
  • From an etymological point of view, perdikis is an appropriate word for "fundament," as it is cognate with verbs for breaking wind.
  • "fundament" to describe some central doctrine he was invoking.
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