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established, ppl. a.|ɪˈstæblɪʃt|
[f. as prec. + -ed1.]
In senses of the vb. Established Church: see church 5 c, and establish v. 7. established clerk, established servant, etc.: one on the ‘establishment’, in permanent employ. established list, the list of those in permanent employ.
1642T. Lechford (title) Plain Dealing..A short view of New-Englands present Government..compared with the..Established Government of England. 1672–5T. Comber Comp. Temple (1702) 81 All Establisht Protestant Churches do approve, and use prescribed Forms. 1682Claverhouse in M. Morris Life vi. (1888) 93 [The king] was relenting nothing of his..care of maintaining the established government. 1753Smart Power Supreme Being (R.), Rul'd by establish'd laws and current nature. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 135 We are resolved to keep an established church, an established monarchy, an established aristocracy, and an established democracy. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 5 They respect some of the established principles and arrangements of the language. 1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps vii. 186 The architecture of a nation is great only when it is as universal and as established as its language. 1865Earle Sax. Chron. Notes 340 One of the established sensation scenes of history. 1888Pall Mall G. 25 April 10/2 A return of the number of established and unestablished servants [in the Post Office.] |