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Automatic stability; also, inherent stability. An aëroplane is inherently stable if it keeps in steady poise by virtue of its shape and proportions alone; it is automatically stable if it keeps in steady poise by means of self-operative mechanism.

Joint establishment. Bp. Watson.

A high officer in the monarhical establishments of the Middle Ages.

The constabulary. [Obs.]

The office or functions of a constable.

The wife of a constable. [Obs.]

The district to which a constable's power is limited. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Of or pertaining to constables; consisting of constables.

A constabulary. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

Capable of being contested; debatable.

Capacity of being odious. [R.] Carlyle.

being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices. Thou hast defiled my sanctuary will all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations. Ezek. v. 11.

The quality or state of being detestable.

In a detestable manner.

To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state. M. Arnold.

The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament.

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.