All 17 Uses
establish
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Great Expectations
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- My sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I, and had established a great reputation with herself and the neighbors because she had brought me up "by hand."
p. 6.1established = created
- The Educational scheme or Course established by Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt may be resolved into the following synopsis.
p. 76.4 *
- I didn't ask him if he was, for my conviction on that point was perfectly established.
p. 185.6established = set
- So successful a watch and ward had been established over the young lady by this judicious parent, that she had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless.
p. 198.3established = created and maintained
- After two or three days, when I had established myself in my room and had gone backwards and forwards to London several times, and had ordered all I wanted of my tradesmen, Mr. Pocket and I had a long talk together.
p. 206.1established = settled
- In her desire to be matrimonially established, you might suppose her to have passed her short existence in the perpetual contemplation of domestic bliss.
p. 265.7
- I established with myself, on these occasions, the reputation of a first-rate man of business,—prompt, decisive, energetic, clear, cool-headed.
p. 294.1established = created
- The upshot was, that we found a worthy young merchant or shipping-broker, not long established in business, who wanted intelligent help, and who wanted capital, and who in due course of time and receipt would want a partner.
p. 318.6established = set up
- Little, if any, community of feeling subsisted between them and Estella, but the understanding was established that they were necessary to her, and that she was necessary to them.
p. 320.6established = created
- To state that my terrible patron carried this little black book about the world solely to swear people on in cases of emergency, would be to state what I never quite established; but this I can say, that I never knew him put it to any other use.
p. 353.6established = determined or proved
- And that it was a highly agreeable boast to both of us, and that we must both be very proud of it, was a conclusion quite established in his own mind.
p. 360.6established = set (accepted as true)
- It was an odd sensation to see his very familiar face established quite at home in that very unfamiliar room and region;
p. 397.2established = settled
- So convinced I was of that woman's being her mother, that I wanted no evidence to establish the fact in my own mind.
p. 425.3 *establish = prove
- I think it would hardly serve her to establish her parentage for the information of her husband, and to drag her back to disgrace, after an escape of twenty years, pretty secure to last for life.
p. 440.7establish = show
- So, the unfortunate Mike very humbly withdrew, and Mr. Jaggers and Wemmick appeared to have re-established their good understanding, and went to work again with an air of refreshment upon them as if they had just had lunch.
p. 442.5re-established = restoredstandard prefix: The prefix "re-" in re-established means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
- Clarriker informing me on that occasion that the affairs of the House were steadily progressing, that he would now be able to establish a small branch-house in the East which was much wanted for the extension of the business, and...
p. 443.3establish = create
- I had no claim, and I finally resolved, and ever afterwards abided by the resolution, that my heart should never be sickened with the hopeless task of attempting to establish one.
p. 477.9establish = demonstrate or prove
Definitions:
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(1)
(establish as in: establish a positive tone) create, start, or set in [a] place
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(2)
(establish as in: establish that there is a need) show or determine (cause to be recognized or figure out)
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)