'Establish' definitions:
Definition of 'establish'
From: WordNet
verb
Set up or found; "She set up a literacy program" [syn: establish, set up, found, launch] [ant: abolish, get rid of]
verb
Set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department" [syn: establish, found, plant, constitute, institute]
verb
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" [syn: prove, demonstrate, establish, show, shew] [ant: confute, disprove]
verb
verb
Bring about; "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth" [syn: establish, give]
verb
verb
Build or establish something abstract; "build a reputation" [syn: build, establish]
verb
Definition of 'Establish'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- So were the churches established in the faith. --Acts xvi. 5. [1913 Webster]
- The best established tempers can scarcely forbear being borne down. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- Confidence which must precede union could be established only by consummate prudence and self-control. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain. [1913 Webster]
- By the consent of all, we were established The people's magistrates. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed. --Dan. vi. 8. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- He hath established it [the earth], he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited. --Is. xlv. 18. [1913 Webster]
- Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity! --Hab. ii. 12. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. --Deut. xix. 15. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'establish'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acclimate,
- acclimatize,
- accommodate,
- accustom,
- adapt,
- adjust,
- advertise,
- affirm,
- afford proof of,
- ascertain,
- assure,
- authenticate,
- author,
- authorize,
- back up,
- ballyhoo,
- bark,
- base,
- bear,
- bed,
- beget,
- begin,
- bill,
- boost,
- break,
- break in,
- breed,
- bring about,
- bring forth,
- bring home to,
- bring to effect,
- bring to pass,
- bring up,
- broach,
- build,
- build in,
- build up,
- bulletin,
- case harden,
- cause,
- certify,
- christen,
- cinch,
- circularize,
- clear up,
- clinch,
- conceive,
- condition,
- confirm,
- constitute,
- corroborate,
- create,
- cry up,
- decide,
- declare lawful,
- decree,
- deep-dye,
- define,
- demonstrate,
- determine,
- dismiss all doubt,
- do,
- domesticate,
- domesticize,
- effect,
- effectuate,
- embed,
- enact,
- engender,
- engraft,
- engrave,
- ensconce,
- ensure,
- entrench,
- etch,
- familiarize,
- father,
- find out,
- fix,
- float,
- follow,
- follow from,
- form,
- formulate,
- found,
- generate,
- gentle,
- gestate,
- get at,
- give a write-up,
- give birth to,
- give occasion to,
- give origin to,
- give publicity,
- give rise to,
- ground,
- habituate,
- harden,
- have a case,
- hold good,
- hold water,
- housebreak,
- impact,
- implant,
- impress,
- imprint,
- inaugurate,
- incept,
- inculcate,
- induct,
- infix,
- ingrain,
- initiate,
- inscribe,
- install,
- instill,
- institute,
- insure,
- introduce,
- inure,
- invest,
- jam,
- launch,
- lay,
- lay the foundation,
- legalize,
- legislate,
- legitimate,
- legitimatize,
- legitimize,
- lift up,
- locate,
- lodge,
- make,
- make a regulation,
- make certain,
- make good,
- make legal,
- make no doubt,
- make no mistake,
- make out,
- make sure,
- make sure of,
- materialize,
- moor,
- nail down,
- naturalize,
- occasion,
- ordain,
- organize,
- orient,
- orientate,
- originate,
- pack,
- pitch,
- placard,
- place,
- plant,
- plug,
- post,
- post bills,
- post up,
- prescribe,
- press-agent,
- print,
- produce,
- promote,
- prove,
- prove to be,
- prove true,
- publicize,
- puff,
- put,
- put in,
- put in force,
- put up,
- raise,
- realize,
- reassure,
- regulate,
- remove all doubt,
- ring in,
- rivet,
- root,
- sanction,
- season,
- seat,
- secure,
- see that,
- see to it,
- sell,
- set,
- set afloat,
- set agoing,
- set at rest,
- set down,
- set in,
- set on foot,
- set up,
- settle,
- settle the matter,
- show,
- sire,
- sort out,
- spiel,
- stamp,
- start,
- start going,
- start up,
- station,
- stereotype,
- stick,
- substantiate,
- support,
- tame,
- train,
- turn on,
- usher in,
- validate,
- verify,
- vest,
- wedge,
- wont,
- work,
- write up