All 8 Uses of
establish
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Madame Bovary
- However, amid a rain of impositions, order was gradually re-established in the class; and the master having succeeded in catching the name of "Charles Bovary," having had it dictated to him, spelt out, and re-read, at once ordered the poor devil to go and sit down on the punishment form at the foot of the master's desk.
Chpt 1.1re-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.
- He was well, looked well; his reputation was firmly established.
Chpt 1.9 *established = settled
- It was another bond of the flesh establishing itself, and, as it were, a continued sentiment of a more complex union.†
Chpt 2.3
- Thus a kind of bond was established between them, a constant commerce of books and of romances.
Chpt 2.4established = created
- Everywhere commerce and the arts are flourishing; everywhere new means of communication, like so many new arteries in the body of the state, establish within it new relations.†
Chpt 2.8
- Bridaux (one of my old comrades, at present established in the Rue Malpalu) possesses a dog that falls into convulsions as soon as you hold out a snuff-box to him.
Chpt 2.13established = settled
- He was adjudicator for a supply of cider to the hospital at Neufchatel; Monsieur Guillaumin promised him some shares in the turf-pits of Gaumesnil, and he dreamt of establishing a new diligence service between Arcueil and Rouen, which no doubt would not be long in ruining the ramshackle van of the "Lion d'Or," and that, travelling faster, at a cheaper rate, and carrying more luggage, would thus put into his hands the whole commerce of Yonville.
Chpt 2.14establishing = creating
- For Lheureux had at last established the "Favorites du Commerce," and Hivert, who enjoyed a great reputation for doing errands, insisted on a rise of wages, and was threatening to go over "to the opposition shop."†
Chpt 3.11
Definition:
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(establish as in: establish a positive tone) create, start, or set in [a] place