The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
undergirded
simple past tense and past participle of undergird
Source: Wiktionary
Un`der*gird", v. t.
Definition: To blind below; to gird round the bottom. They used helps, undergirding the ship. Acts xxvii. 17.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 November 2024
(adverb) in a searching manner; “‘Are you really happy with him,’ asked her mother, gazing at Vera searchingly”
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.