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Established   /ɪstˈæblɪʃt/  /istˈæblɪʃt/   Listen
Established

adjective
1.
Brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established.  Synonym: constituted.  "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"  Antonym: unestablished.
2.
Settled securely and unconditionally.  Synonyms: accomplished, effected.
3.
Conforming with accepted standards.  Synonym: conventional.
4.
Shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt.
5.
Introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation.  Synonym: naturalized.



Establish

verb
(past & past part. established; pres. part. establishing)
1.
Set up or found.  Synonyms: found, launch, set up.  Antonym: abolish.
2.
Set up or lay the groundwork for.  Synonyms: constitute, found, institute, plant.
3.
Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment.  Synonyms: demonstrate, prove, shew, show.  "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"  Antonym: disprove.
4.
Institute, enact, or establish.  Synonyms: lay down, make.
5.
Bring about.  Synonym: give.
6.
Place.  Synonyms: instal, install, set up.
7.
Build or establish something abstract.  Synonym: build.
8.
Use as a basis for; found on.  Synonyms: base, found, ground.



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"Established" Quotes from Famous Books



... purpose: for what if all errors by them supposed in our Liturgy were amended, even according to their own heart's desire; if non-residence, pluralities, and the like were utterly taken away; are their lay-elders therefore presently authorized? or their sovereign ecclesiastical jurisdiction established? ...
— Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, - &C, Volume Two • Izaak Walton

... next to Hector, old Wolfe was her greatest favourite. At first, it is true, the old dog regarded the new inmate with a jealous eye, and seemed uneasy when he saw her approach to caress him; but Indiana soon reconciled him to her person, and a mutual friendly feeling became established between them, which seemed daily and hourly to increase, greatly to the delight of the young stranger. She would seat herself Eastern fashion, cross-legged on the floor of the shanty, with the capacious head of the old dog in her lap, and address herself to this ...
— Lost in the Backwoods • Catharine Parr Traill

... we have established bad thought habits. We habitually think of the visible world as real and doubt the reality of any other. We do not deny the existence of the spiritual world but we doubt that it is real in the accepted meaning of ...
— The Pursuit of God • A. W. Tozer

... civilization—the religious period, the sophistical period, the scientific period.[3] Thus, alchemy represents the religious period of the science afterwards called chemistry, whose definitive plan is not yet discovered; likewise astrology was the religious period of another science, since established,—astronomy. ...
— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon

... stride, he tried to puzzle out the riddle, or the "nut" he had set out to crack, as McLagan had been pleased to call it. He could see no explanation of it. Why his brand? He knew well enough that cattle rustlers preferred to use established brands of distant ranches when it was necessary to hold stolen cattle in hiding before deporting them from the district. But his brand. It was absurd from a rustler's point of view. Everybody knew his small bunch of cattle. Any excessive ...
— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum


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