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Definition of Established

1. Adjective. Brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established. "The established Church"

2. Adjective. Settled securely and unconditionally. "That smoking causes health problems is an accomplished fact"

3. Adjective. Conforming with accepted standards. "A conventional view of the world"

4. Adjective. Shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt. "The established facts in the case"

5. Adjective. Introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation.

Definition of Established

1. Verb. (past of ''establish'') ¹

2. Adjective. Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Established

1. establish [v] - See also: establish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Established

essive cases essives essoin essoined essoiner essoiners essoining essoins essonite essonites

essorant essoyne essoynes establish establishable established established cell line established church establisher establishers

establishes establisheth establishing establishing shot establishing shots establishment establishment growth establishmentarian establishmentarianism establishmentism

Literary usage of Established

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Free Town Libraries, Their Formation, Management, and History: In Britain by Edward Edwards (1869)
"Nor is it a less important distinction that, once established, their permanency is, by that single fact of establishment under the Act, effectually secured. ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1886)
"My London Branch (established January, 1884), at 26 King William Street, one door from 'the Strand, is now prepared to take the Agency for American ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1813)
"I. First annual Report of the National Society for promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church. ..."

4. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral by Mary Wollstonecraft (1891)
"OF THE PERNICIOUS EFFECTS WHICH ARISE FROM THE UNNATURAL DISTINCTIONS Established IN SOCIETY. FROM the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned ..."

5. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"Now when Greece WM becoming moro powerful, and acquiring possession of money still mora than before, tyran- nies, generally speaking, were established in ..."

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