establish : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: establish	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
establish v set up or found; "She set up a literacy program" [syn: establish, set up, found, launch] Antonym(s): abolish, get rid of set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department" Synonym(s): establish, found, plant, constitute, institute establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture" Synonym(s): prove, demonstrate, establish, show, shew Antonym(s): confute, disprove institute, enact, or establish; "make laws" Synonym(s): lay down, establish, make bring about; "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth" Synonym(s): establish, give place; "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz" Synonym(s): install, instal, set up, establish build or establish something abstract; "build a reputation" Synonym(s): build, establish use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation" Synonym(s): establish, base, ground, found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Establish \Estab"lish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Established}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Establishing}.] [OE. establissen, OF. establir, F. [82]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.