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stical; especially, a system of religion maintained by the civil power; as, the Episcopal establishment of England. (b) A permanent civil, military, or commercial, force or organization. (c) The place in which one is permanently fixed for residence or business; residence, including grounds, furniture, equipage, etc.; w…

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

Joint establishment. Bp. Watson.

ically, 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.

Settlement beforehand.

The act reëstablishing; the state of being reëstablished. Addison.

The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.

A public establishment for the storage, or for the manufacture and storage, of arms and all military equipments, whether for land or naval service.

The act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant. The authorization of laws. Motley. A special authorization from the chief. Merivale.

Verification; establishment by evidence. Bacon.

An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity…

cts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.

The business of a bank or of a banker. Banking house, an establishment or office in which, or a firm by whom, banking is done.

A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment.

A place or an establishment where bleaching is done.

A bookbinder's shop; a place or establishment for binding books.

Eng.] The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company. Beck (Draper's Dict. ).

The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc.

The gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing house. Clearing house, the establishment where the business of clearing is carried on. See above, 3.

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.