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

Establishment. [Obs.]

Joint establishment. Bp. Watson.

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.

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 only by consummate prudence and self-control. Bancroft.…

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.

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

To establish beforehand.

Settlement beforehand.

To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; to restore; as, to reëstablish a covenant; to reëstablish health.

One who establishes again.

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

To disestablish. [R.] The Parliament demanded of the king to unestablish that prelatical government. Milton.

Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact.

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

Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law. Hooker.

ning to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of England; as, the Anglican church, doctrine, orders, ritual, etc.