What is another word for "footing"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "footing": according, accordingly, advance, adventitious, amidst, and, ante, appearance, are, aspect, attitude, attribution, bank, base, baseboard, based, basement, basis, being, bilge, bleed, bottom, bribe, built, case, category, causation, centerboard, certain, character, chorography, circulation, circumjacence, circumstance, circumstantial, come, complexion, condition, conditional, conditionally.