Establish

·adj To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, ·etc.; to Enact; to Ordain.

II. Establish ·adj 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.

III. Establish ·adj 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.

IV. Establish ·adj 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.

V. Establish ·adj 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.