Establish
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.
To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
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.
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.
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.
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Establish Quotations
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Edgar Allan Poe
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
Thomas Paine
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
George Orwell
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
George Orwell
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
Richard M. Nixon
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.
David Hume
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
James Joyce
When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.
Loretta Young
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac Asimov
Establish Translations
establish in Dutch is stichten, inrichten, oprichten
establish in Finnish is todeta, perustaa
establish in German is aufstellen, aufbauen
establish in Italian is fissare, fondare
establish in Latin is statuo, constituo, condo, comprobo
establish in Norwegian is opprette, etablere
establish in Spanish is basar, edificar, arquitecturar
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