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Established   /ɪstˈæblɪʃt/  /istˈæblɪʃt/   Listen
verb
Establish  v. t.  (past & past part. established; pres. part. establishing)  
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." "The best established tempers can scarcely forbear being borne down." "Confidence which must precede union could be established only by consummate prudence and self-control."
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." "Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed."
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." "Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!"
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."
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.


adjective
established  adj.  
1.
Brought about or set up or accepted; especially long and widely accepted; as, distrust of established authority; a team established as a member of a major league; enjoyed his prestige as an established writer; an established precedent; the established Church. Contrasted with unestablished. (Narrower terms: entrenched; implanted, planted, rooted; official; recognized)
2.
Securely established; as, an established reputation.
Synonyms: firm.
3.
Settled securely and unconditionally.
Synonyms: accomplished, effected.
4.
Conforming with accepted standards.
5.
Shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt; as, the established facts in the case.
Synonyms: proved.
6.
(Bot.) Introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation; of plants.
Synonyms: naturalized.





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"Established" Quotes from Famous Books



... was greatly regarded, and his knowledge of the English language rendered his services of inestimable value in all their intercourse with the Indian tribes; while his acquaintance with the soil on which they had established themselves, and the native modes of cultivating grain and other vegetable produce, was of the greatest use to men who were only accustomed to ...
— The Pilgrims of New England - A Tale Of The Early American Settlers • Mrs. J. B. Webb
... speech. It is just the language that Prometheus would talk, that an ideal Agamemnon or Atossa might talk in the great moments. But neither Prometheus nor Oedipus nor Electra, nor anyone but an Attic poet of the highest culture, would talk as Sophocles makes them. It is this which has established Sophocles as the perfect model, not only for Aristotle, but in general for critics and grammarians; while the poets have been left to admire Aeschylus, who 'wrote in a state of intoxication,' and Euripedes, who broke himself against the bars of life ...
— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris
... upon Saumur, whose inhabitants were driven into exile. And thereupon (1685) the town fell into a decline which was not arrested until Louis XV, in the latter part of his reign, caused this cavalry school to be established there. ...
— Foch the Man - A Life of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies • Clara E. Laughlin
... incessantly till the music had ceased. Heated and breathless, he led her out of the ball-room to get some refreshment. There was a large supper-room which, on the cessation of the waltz, immediately became crowded by other couples bent on a similar errand. But there had also been established a little subsidiary buffet in a small cabinet at the furthest end of the suite of rooms, for the purpose of drawing off some of the crowd from the main supper-room. And thither Ludovico led Bianca, thinking to avoid the crush of people rushing in ...
— A Siren • Thomas Adolphus Trollope
... been the most carefully examined as to the evidence on which they rest? that facts or principles which are taken for granted, without controversy, as the common basis of opposite opinions, are always themselves established on sufficient grounds? On the contrary, is not any such fundamental point, from the very circumstance of its being taken for granted at once, and the attention drawn off to some other question, likely to be admitted on insufficient evidence, and the ...
— Historic Doubts Relative To Napoleon Buonaparte • Richard Whately


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