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Definition of Establish

1. Verb. Set up or found. "She set up a literacy program"

2. Verb. Set up or lay the groundwork for. "Establish a new department"

3. Verb. Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment. "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"

4. Verb. Institute, enact, or establish. "Make laws"

5. Verb. Bring about. "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth"

6. Verb. Place. "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz"

7. Verb. Build or establish something abstract. "Build a reputation"

8. Verb. Use as a basis for; found on. "Base a claim on some observation"

Definition of Establish

1. v. t. 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.

Definition of Establish

1. Verb. (transitive) To make stable or firm; to confirm. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To appoint, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Establish

1. [v -ED, -ING, -ES]

Medical Definition of Establish

1. 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. Origin: OE. Establissen, OF. Establir, F. Etablir, fr. L. Stabilire, fr. Stabilis firm, steady, stable. See Stable, -ish, and cf. Stablish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Establish

essive-modal essive case essive cases essives essoin essoined essoiner essoiners essoining essoins

essonite essonites essorant essoyne essoynes establish (current term) establishable established established cell line established church

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Literary usage of Establish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare, Peter Augustin Daniel by William Shakespeare, Peter Augustin Daniel (1874)
"D. Dr Ingleby presented to every Member of the Society who had paid his Subscription by Nov. 7, 1874, a copy of his Still Lion, an attempt to establish a ..."

2. Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session by United States Congress. House (1819)
"An act to establish additional land offices in the state of Alabama; and 5. ... The bill from the Senate, entitled " An act to establish a district court in ..."

3. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1921)
"RATIONAL PROOFS TO establish THE BELIEF OF THE SCRIPTURE. WITHOUT this certainty, better and stronger than any human judgment, in vain will the authority of ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1806)
"Trajan The answer of Trajan, to which the Christians successors of the succeeding age have frequently appealed, establish discovers as much regard for ..."

5. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"That denial he may establish otherwise, but he cannot establish it by adducing any number of contradictory Australian myths. To adduce these, however, ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Steuart Macnaghten, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Alexander Gordon, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham, Thomas Wilde Truro (1850)
"The object of the suit, so far as it is ^{^^1 necessary for the purpose of the present report to refer participation to it, was to establish the right of ..."

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