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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Establish \Es*tab"lish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Established}; p. pr & vb n. {Establishing}.] [OE. establissen OF establir F. ['e]tablir, fr L. stabilire, fr stabilis firm, steady, stable. See {Stable}, a., {-ish}, and cf {Stablish}.] 1. To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there to settle; to confirm. So were the churches established in the faith. --Acts xvi. 5. The best established tempers can scarcely forbear being borne down --Burke. Confidence which must precede union could be established only by consummate prudence and self-control. --Bancroft. 2. To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain. By the consent of all we were established The people's magistrates. --Shak. Now O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed. --Dan. vi 8. 3. To originate and secure the permanent existence of to found to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions. He hath established it [the earth], he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited. --Is. xlv. 18. Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity! --Hab. ii 12. 4. To secure public recognition in favor of to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as to establish a fact usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. --Deut. xix. 15. 5. To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively; as he established himself in a place the enemy established themselves in the citadel.
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