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A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties. Fitter for a cloister than a crown. Daniel. Cloister garth (Arch.), the garden or open part of a court inclosed by the cloisters.

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

process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.

Relating to a constitution, or establishment form of government; as, a constitutional risis. The anient constitutional traditions of the state. Macaulay.

A body of men; esp., an organized division of the military establishment; as, the marine corps; the corps of topographical engineers; specifically, an army corps. A corps operating with an army should consist of three divisions of the line, a brigade of artillery, and a regiment of cavalry. Gen. Upton (U. S. Tactics. )…

An establishment where cream is sold.

s, and other fanatics that dangle after them, are well inclined to pull down the present establishment. Swift.

ich we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. Shak. Destruction of venerable establishment. Hallam.

diet. Shak. Diet kitchen, a kitchen in which diet is prepared for invalids; a charitable establishment that provides proper food for the sick poor.

s the authority or tenets of the Church of England; a nonconformist. Dissenters from the establishment of their several countries. Burke. Robert Brown is said to have the first formal dissenter. Shipley.

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

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.

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

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

A reel for drawing off silk from cocoons; also, an establishment for reeling silk.

A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy. In the quick forge and working house of thought. Shak.

raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions. 1.

A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage. Hong merchant, one of the few Chinese merchants who, previous to the treaty of 1842, formed a guild which had the exclusive privilege of tradin…

A firm, or commercial establishment.

A printing establishment.