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the Establishment
a. The ecclesiastical system established by law; more fully Church Establishment. Hence the Establishment often occurs as a distinctive name for the established church (esp. of England, Scotland, formerly Ireland), in contradistinction to the non-established churches or sects.
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society > faith > church government > kinds of church government > establishmentarianism > [noun] > instance of
parliament-faith1565
parliament religion1565
Established Church1628
state church1644
national church1645
parliament-church1707
establishmenta1732
law-church1826
1667 J. Corbet Disc. Relig. Eng. 28 The Setling of a Nation may be made up of an Establishment, a Limited Toleration, and a Discreet Connivence, etc.]
a1732 E. Calamy Life (1830) I. v. 469 There was a variety of sentiments amongst those out of the Establishment, as well as those under it.
1786 W. Pitt in Ld. Stanhope Life (1879) I. 252 It is certainly a delicate thing to meddle with the Church Establishment in the present situation of Ireland.
1795 J. Aikin Descr. Country round Manch. 241 Chaderton contains a chapel of the establishment.
1806–31 A. Knox Remains (1844) I. 93 These teachers have generally been found..within Establishments.
1824 S. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 51/1 America..has no Establishment.
1829 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Jan. 23 Half the people in England dislike the church establishment.
1869 Times Ann. Summary 306 The Irish Church Establishment has been abolished.
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the Establishment
b. Esp. as the Establishment: a social group exercising power generally, or within a given field or institution, by virtue of its traditional superiority, and by the use esp. of tacit understandings and often a common mode of speech, and having as a general interest the maintenance of the status quo. Also attributive. Hence establishment-ˈminded adj., establishment-ˈmindedness. Cf. anti-establishment adj.Quot. 1955 is the locus classicus for this modern sense though occasional earlier uses are recorded.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [noun]
optimacy1579
aristocracy1651
great world1699
peerage1725
well-connected1788
governing class1795
patriciate1795
well-connected1831
caste1842
(the) salt of the earth1842
the leisured class(es1848
japonicadom1851
countyocracy1859
masterclass1861
proprietariat1872
four hundred1888
the Establishment1923
gratin1934
power élite1942
U1954
upper1955
topside1958
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [noun] > social structure or system > type of structure or system
system1806
white supremacy1824
communitarianism1840
familism1859
the Establishment1955
global village1959
megamachine1967
1923 R. Macaulay Told by Idiot ii. xiv. 117 The moderns of one day become the safe establishments of the next.
1936 H. Pearson Labby x. 260 They spoke the common language, the Esperanto, of the Establishment.
1945 D. Goldring Nineteen Twenties i. viii. 110 It was a head-on collision between two acknowledged leaders of the literary avant-garde and the powerful forces of what Ford Madox Ford used to call the Establishment.
1955 H. Fairlie in Spectator 23 Sept. 380/1 By the ‘Establishment’ I do not mean only the centres of official power—though they are certainly part of it—but rather the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power is exercised.
1957 Ld. Altrincham in National & Eng. Rev. Sept. 108/2 He delivered his well-known attack on ‘the Establishment’, a term generally taken to denote those elements in society and politics which are self~satisfied and opposed to all radical change.
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Jan. 26/3 Sir Maurice Bowra, in his dexterous résumé of what might be called the Establishment view of the ancient Greek world.
1958 Listener 6 Nov. 716/1 In Russia, Mr. Khrushchev has been trying with some success to shake up an ossified Communist Establishment.
1958 C. P. Snow Conscience of Rich xxxiv. 254 ‘That gang’ meant the people who had the real power, the rulers, the establishment.
1959 Encounter Dec. 57/1 The charge of being Establishment-minded.
1959 C. Hollis in H. Thomas Establishment 181 The power of the Establishment..comes..from the fact that there is in all of us a degree of establishment-mindedness—that we feel it right that the opinions of such persons should have attention paid to them.
1962 Listener 8 Feb. 269/1 Always ready for a dig at the musical establishment.
1969 Mind 78 26 Where scepticism is thorough and pervasive it is usually directed against some entrenched intellectual Establishment.
1969 Oz May 19/1 The Establishment is IBM, Xerox, the Kennedys, the London and New York Times, Harvard University, LSE, the Courts.
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