bottoming on

Verb

bottom on (third-person singular simple present bottoms on, present participle bottoming on, simple past and past participle bottomed on)

1. (transitive) To ground or base on.
   • Unversed in financial projects and calculations and budgets, his approbation of them was bottomed on his confidence in the man. But Hamilton was not only a monarchist, but for a monarchy bottomed on corruption.1839, Henry Lee, Charles Carter Lee, Observations on the writings of Thomas Jefferson