established
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
establish/ɪˈstablɪʃ/
▶verb
- 1 set up on a firm or permanent basis.
■ initiate or bring about (communication).
- 2 achieve permanent acceptance or recognition for.
■ (as adj. established) recognized by the state as the national Church or religion.
- 3 show to be true or certain by determining the facts.
- 4 Bridge ensure that one's remaining cards in (a suit) will be winners (if not trumped) by playing off the high cards in that suit.
– derivatives
establisher noun.
establisher noun.
– origin ME (recorded earlier as stablish): from OFr. establiss-, lengthened stem of establir, from L. stabilire ‘make firm’, from stabilis (adj.) ‘stable’.
'established' also found in these Oxford entries:
Almoravid
- ancient lights
- anthroposophy
- antipope
- apodictic
- art form
- bobby
- borstal
- breakaway
- Burgundian
- canon
- case law
- casual
- charter school
- circuit
- civil liberty
- classic
- classical
- cohort
- collegiate church
- communism
- comprehension
- condition
- confirmed
- conformist
- congenital
- constitution
- convergent
- convince
- copybook
- custom
- customary
- deep-rooted
- deep-seated
- deviate
- dislodge
- dissent
- dissenter
- doubtful
- est.
- establish
- establishment
- establishmentarian
- exchequer
- experimental
- factive
- fixture
- footing
- foundation
- Free Church
