DIMENSIONS: EVALUATION / Perspective
R E F E R E N C E S
Establish v.t. 1. to bring into being on a firm or permanent basis; found; institute: to establish a university. 2. to install or settle in a position, place, business, etc.: to establish oneÍs son in business. 3. to cause to be accepted or recognized. 4. to show to be valid or true; prove: to establish the facts. 5. to enact, appoint, or ordain for permanence, as a law; fix unalterably. 6. to bring about permanently: to establish order. 7. to make [a church] a national or state institution. 8. Cards. to obtain control of [a suit] so that one can win all the subsequent tricks in it. [ME establisse(n) < MF establiss-, extended s. of establier < L stabilíre, akin to stabilis STABLE2]
-Syn. 1. form, organize. See Fix. 4. verify, substantiate. 5. decree. -Ant. 1. abolish. 4. disprove
[Urdang, Laurence, ed. Random House Dictionary of The English Language. New York: Random House,1968.]
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