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Literary notes about fundament (AI summary)

Writers employ "fundament" in a variety of ways, stretching from the concrete to the abstract. In some works the term designates a physical base or anatomical part—for instance, it may refer to the buttocks, as when a dog's movement is described with its fundament trailing along [1] or in detailed medical and herbal treatises addressing warts, piles, or hemorrhoids [2, 3]. In contrast, other texts use the word metaphorically to denote the essential underpinning or moral base of systems and ideas, as seen in discussions of the foundation of morality and legal principles [4, 5, 6, 7]. Moreover, its usage appears in contexts of sensuality and corporeality, lending an erotic nuance that blurs the line between the physical and the conceptual [8, 9, 10].
  1. To relieve this, the dog often drags the fundament along the ground.
    — from The Dog by William Youatt
  2. The piles are small swelled tumors of rather a dark appearance, usually situated on the edge of the anus or fundament.
    — from Rules and Directions for the Employment of Injections in Various Diseases by Thomas Lewis
  3. Also a disease in a mans or womans fundament called the piles or hemorrhoides.
    — from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio
  4. [343] See my prize-essay "On the Fundament of Morality," § 6.
    — from On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature: Two Essays (revised edition) by Arthur Schopenhauer
  5. On this subject I refer to our fourth book and to my prize essay, “ Ueber das Fundament der Moral .”
    — from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 2 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
  6. The further exposition of the philosophy of law here laid down will be found in my prize-essay, “Ueber das Fundament der Moral,” § 17, pp.
    — from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
  7. Sie sollen das Fundament der Einheit ganz Asiens werden.”
    — from The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
  8. I felt the doctor insert a moistened finger up my fundament, and move it in unison with our thrusts.
    — from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous
  9. Then passing my other hand below, I sought to penetrate with my finger into the interior of his fundament.
    — from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous
  10. I had a most exquisite and copious discharge, the pleasure being greatly enhanced by the action of the finger up my fundament.
    — from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

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