establish

Meaning

Verb

• To make stable or firm; to confirm.
• To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
• To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
• To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.

Origin

• From Middle English establissen, from Old French, stem of some of the conjugated forms of establir, (Modern French établir), from Latin stabilio, from stabilis.