Establishing

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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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