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ESTABLISH

1. To create stable or company; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a seat and create it stable there; to settle; to confirm. "So were the churches established in the faith." (Acts xvi. 5) "The excellent established tempers can scarcely forbear being borne down." (Burke) "Confidence which should 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 subsistence of; to found; to institute; to make and regulate; said of a colony, a state, or another 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 city with blood, and establisheth a town by iniquity!" (Hab. Ii. 12) 4. To secure popular recognition in favor of; to prove and reason 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 seat advantageously in a fixed condition; used reflexively; as, he established himself in a seat; the enemy established themselves in the citadel. Origin: OE. Establissen, OF. Establir, F. Etablir, fr. L. Stabilire, fr. Stabilis company, steady, stable. See Stable, -ish, and cf. Stablish. Source: Websters Vocabulary
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