 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
established
adjective
1: brought about or set up or accepted; especially long
established; "the established social order"; "distrust
the constituted authority"; "a team established as a
member of a major league"; "enjoyed his prestige as an
established writer"; "an established precedent"; "the
established Church" [syn: {constituted}] [ant: {unestablished}]
2: securely established; "an established reputation"; "holds a
firm position as the country's leading poet" [syn: {firm}]
3: settled securely and unconditionally; "that smoking causes
health problems is an accomplished fact" [syn: {accomplished},
{effected}]
4: shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt; "the
established facts in the case"
5: conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of
the world" [syn: {conventional}]
6: introduced from another region and persisting without
cultivation [syn: {naturalized}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Establish \Es*tab"lish\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Established}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Establishing}.] [OE. establissen, OF. establir,
F. ['e]tablir, fr. L. stabilire, fr. stabilis firm, steady,
stable. See {Stable}, adjective, {-ish}, and cf. {Stablish}.]
1. 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 only by consummate prudence and
self-control. --Bancroft.
2. To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers,
laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
By the consent of all, we were established
The people's magistrates. --Shak.
Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the
writing, that it be not changed. --Dan. vi. 8.
3. To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to
found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a
colony, a state, or other institutions.
He hath established it [the earth], he created it
not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited. --Is.
xlv. 18.
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and
establisheth a city by iniquity! --Hab. ii. 12.
4. To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and
cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact,
usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc.
At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of
three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
--Deut. xix.
15.
5. To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed
condition; -- used reflexively; as, he established himself
in a place; the enemy established themselves in the
citadel.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
established \established\ adjective
1. brought about or set up or accepted; especially long and
widely accepted; as, distrust of established authority; a
team established as a member of a major league; enjoyed
his prestige as an established writer; an established
precedent; the established Church. Contrasted with
{unestablished}. [Narrower terms: {entrenched};
{implanted, planted, rooted}; {official}; {recognized}]
[WordNet 1.5]
2. securely established; as, an established reputation.
Syn: firm.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. settled securely and unconditionally.
Syn: accomplished, effected.
[WordNet 1.5]
4. conforming with accepted standards.
[WordNet 1.5]
5. shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt; as, the
established facts in the case.
Syn: proved.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
6. (Bot.) introduced from another region and persisting
without cultivation; -- of plants.
Syn: naturalized.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
168 Moby Thesaurus words for "established":
accepted, acknowledged, actual, admitted, ascertained, assigned,
assured, attested, authenticated, borne out, categorically true,
certain, certified, chronic, circumstantiated, confirmed,
conformable, consuetudinary, conventional, corroborated, current,
customary, decided, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed,
deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set,
deep-settled, demonstrated, deployed, determinate, determined,
documentary, dyed-in-the-wool, effectual, embedded, embosomed,
embossed, emplaced, engrafted, engraved, ensconced, entrenched,
etched, everyday, factual, familiar, fast, firmly established,
fixed, folk, generally accepted, graven, guaranteed, hallowed,
handed down, heroic, historical, hoary, immemorial, implanted,
impressed, imprinted, in the bag, incorrigible, inculcated,
indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, installed,
instilled, inveterate, inwrought, irreversible, legendary, located,
long-established, long-standing, made sure, mythological,
nailed down, normal, not in error, objectively true, obtaining,
of long standing, of the folk, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock,
on ice, open-and-shut, oral, ordinary, placed, planted, popular,
positioned, posted, prescribed, prescriptive, prevalent, proved,
proven, real, received, recognized, regular, regulation, rooted,
seated, secure, set, settled, settled in habit, shown, situate,
situated, spotted, stabilized, standard, stated, stationed, stock,
substantiated, sure-enough, tested, thorough, time-honored,
traditional, tried, tried and true, true, true as gospel,
true-blue, truthful, unconfuted, undenied, understood, undoubted,
unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, unmistaken, unquestionable,
unrefuted, unwritten, usual, validated, venerable, veracious,
verified, veritable, vested, warranted, well-established,
well-founded, well-grounded, well-set, well-settled, widespread,
wonted, worshipful
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