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Involving, or formed by, speculation; ideal; theoretical; not established by demonstration. Cudworth.

The act of making firm; firm support; establishment. [R.] Jer. taylor. They serve for stabiliment, propagation, and shade. Derham.

To make stable; to establish. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government. In this region of chance, . . . where nothing is stable. Rogers.

The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.

To settle permanently in a state; to make firm; to establish; to fix. [Obs.] 2 Sam. vii. 13.

Establishment. [Obs.]

An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See État Major.

That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp., the original specimen weight or measure sanctioned by government, as the standard pound, gallon, or yard.

Established by law, custom, or the like; settled; continually existing; permanent; not temporary; as, a standing army; legislative bodies have standing rules of proceeding and standing committees.

staples of the United States. We should now say, Cotton is the great staple, that is, the established merchandize, of Manchester. Trench.

To set; to settle; to establish. [R.] I myself, though meanest stated, And in court now almost hated. Wither. Who calls the council, states the certain day. Pope.

Settled; established; fixed. He is capable of corruption who receives more than what is the stated and unquestionable fee of his office. Addison.

Firmly fixed or established; fast fixed; firm. "This steadfast globe of earth." Spenser.

-- To step short (Mil.), to diminish the length or rapidity of the step according to the established rules.

science in which the correspondence of index and stigma (see Stigma, 7) is made use of to establish geometrical proportions.

Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as, a strong custom; a strong belief.

, from a municipal corporation, or the like, to a private person or company to assist the establishment or support of an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public; a subvention; as, a subsidy to the owners of a line of ocean steamships.

To establish the existence or truth of by proof or competent evidence; to verify; as, to substantiate a charge or allegation; to substantiate a declaration. Observation is, in turn, wanted to direct and substantiate the course of experiment. Coleridge.

A series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology. He was in the succession to an earldom. Macaulay.