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To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate. Kent.

To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.

er of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, bla…

A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.

Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation. Blackstone.

ing different minds at different times; unsettled; undetermined. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. Jas. i. 8.

sedly based on the traditions of the ancient Druids. Lodges or groves of the society are established in other countries. Druid stones, a name given, in the south of England, to weatherworn, rough pillars of gray sandstone scattered over the chalk downs, but in other countries generally in the form of circles, or in det…

Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct. "This brave and eccentric young man." Macaulay. He shines eccentric, like a comet's blaze. Savage. Eccentric anomaly.…

an abomination. Cowper. Ecclesiastical commissioners for England, a permanent commission established by Parliament in 1836, to consider and report upon the affairs of the Established Church. -- Ecclesiastical courts, courts for maintaining the discipline of the Established Church; -- called also Christian courts. [Eng…

c; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.

Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy.

A stable.

Of or pertaining to education. "His educational establishment." J. H. Newman.

To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law.

Having power to enact or establish as a law. Abp. Bramhall.

a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law.

One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law. Atterbury.

her; unlawful intrusion. An unconstitutional encroachment of military power on the civil establishment. Bancroft.

raint; force applied. The rewards and punishment of another life, which the Almighty has established as the enforcements of his law. Locke.

Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime. That detestable profession of a life so enormous. Bale.