Established

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Establish \Es*tab"lish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Established}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Establishing}.] [OE. establissen, OF. establir,
     F. ['e]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.
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              So were the churches established in the faith.
                                                    --Acts xvi. 5.
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              The best established tempers can scarcely forbear
              being borne down.                     --Burke.
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              Confidence which must precede union could be
              established only by consummate prudence and
              self-control.                         --Bancroft.
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     2. To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers,
        laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
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              By the consent of all, we were established
              The people's magistrates.             --Shak.
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              Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the
              writing, that it be not changed.      --Dan. vi. 8.
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     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.
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              He hath established it [the earth], he created it
              not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited. --Is.
                                                    xlv. 18.
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              Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and
              establisheth a city by iniquity!      --Hab. ii. 12.
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     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.
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              At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of
              three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
                                                    --Deut. xix.
                                                    15.
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     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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  established \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}]
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     2. securely established; as, an established reputation.
  
     Syn: firm.
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     3. settled securely and unconditionally.
  
     Syn: accomplished, effected.
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     4. conforming with accepted standards.
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     5. shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt; as, the
        established facts in the case.
  
     Syn: proved.
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     6. (Bot.) introduced from another region and persisting
        without cultivation; -- of plants.
  
     Syn: naturalized.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  established
       adj 1: brought about or set up or accepted; especially long
              established; "the established social order"; "distrust
              the constituted authority"; "a team established as a
              member of a major league"; "enjoyed his prestige as an
              established writer"; "an established precedent"; "the
              established Church" [syn: {constituted}] [ant: {unestablished}]
       2: securely established; "an established reputation"; "holds a
          firm position as the country's leading poet" [syn: {firm}]
       3: settled securely and unconditionally; "that smoking causes
          health problems is an accomplished fact" [syn: {accomplished},
           {effected}]
       4: shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt; "the
          established facts in the case"
       5: conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of
          the world" [syn: {conventional}]
       6: introduced from another region and persisting without
          cultivation [syn: {naturalized}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  168 Moby Thesaurus words for "established":
     accepted, acknowledged, actual, admitted, ascertained, assigned,
     assured, attested, authenticated, borne out, categorically true,
     certain, certified, chronic, circumstantiated, confirmed,
     conformable, consuetudinary, conventional, corroborated, current,
     customary, decided, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed,
     deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set,
     deep-settled, demonstrated, deployed, determinate, determined,
     documentary, dyed-in-the-wool, effectual, embedded, embosomed,
     embossed, emplaced, engrafted, engraved, ensconced, entrenched,
     etched, everyday, factual, familiar, fast, firmly established,
     fixed, folk, generally accepted, graven, guaranteed, hallowed,
     handed down, heroic, historical, hoary, immemorial, implanted,
     impressed, imprinted, in the bag, incorrigible, inculcated,
     indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, installed,
     instilled, inveterate, inwrought, irreversible, legendary, located,
     long-established, long-standing, made sure, mythological,
     nailed down, normal, not in error, objectively true, obtaining,
     of long standing, of the folk, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock,
     on ice, open-and-shut, oral, ordinary, placed, planted, popular,
     positioned, posted, prescribed, prescriptive, prevalent, proved,
     proven, real, received, recognized, regular, regulation, rooted,
     seated, secure, set, settled, settled in habit, shown, situate,
     situated, spotted, stabilized, standard, stated, stationed, stock,
     substantiated, sure-enough, tested, thorough, time-honored,
     traditional, tried, tried and true, true, true as gospel,
     true-blue, truthful, unconfuted, undenied, understood, undoubted,
     unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, unmistaken, unquestionable,
     unrefuted, unwritten, usual, validated, venerable, veracious,
     verified, veritable, vested, warranted, well-established,
     well-founded, well-grounded, well-set, well-settled, widespread,
     wonted, worshipful