adj to appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, ·etc.; to enact; to ordain.
2. establish ·adj 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.
3. establish ·adj 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.
4. establish ·adj 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.
5. establish ·adj 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.