establishing

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.

– origin ME (recorded earlier as stablish): from OFr. establiss-, lengthened stem of establir, from L. stabilire ‘make firm’, from stabilis (adj.) ‘stable’.