1. Adjective
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.
2. Adjective
To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
3. Adjective
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.
4. Adjective
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.
5. Adjective
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.
6. Verb
To provide strong enough evidence to treat something as confirmed.
To show with sufficient evidence that a fact, relationship or principle is well founded. Strong evidential verb; avoid when the design supports only association.
“The cross-sectional design cannot establish the direction of causation.”
Strong evidential verb; avoid when the design supports only association
7. Verb
establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary
8. Verb
institute, enact, or establish; "make laws"
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary
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