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.
To appoint or constitute for permanence,
as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
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.
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.
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.