- (a.) To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
- (a.) 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.
- (a.) 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.
- (a.) 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.
- (a.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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