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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. So were the churches established in the faith. Acts xvi. 5. The best established tempers can scarcely forbear being borne down. Burke. Confidence which must precede union could be established…

A plain suit in which a player (or side) could, except for trumping, take tricks with all his remaining cards.

One who establishes.

The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. Shipley.

A voidable. [R.] Hooker.

and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability.

Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.

Capable of being executed; feasible; as, an executable project. [R.]

Very desirable. [Obs.] Bailey.

That may be expected or looked for. Sir T. Browne.

A table of mortality computed from the experience of one or more life-insurance companies.

The quality or state of being suitable for exportation. To increase the exportability of native goods. J. P. Peters.

Suitable for exportation; as, exportable products.

Capable of being extracted.

Making liable to extradition; as, extraditable offenses.

Capability of fermentation.

Capable of fermentation; as, cider and other vegetable liquors are fermentable.

Suitable; fit. [Obs.] Sherwood.

That may be floated.