All 7 Uses of
establish
in
Of Human Bondage
- Philip's father was a surgeon in good practice, and his hospital appointments suggested an established position; so that it was a surprise on his sudden death from bloodpoisoning to find that he had left his widow little more than his life insurance and what could be got for the lease of their house in Bruton Street.
Chpt 3-4established = long-successful
- He rebelled against being undressed by Mary Ann and after a while succeeded in establishing his right to dress and undress himself.
Chpt 5-6 *establishing = setting in place
- He had been at Oxford during the movement which ended in the secession from the Established Church of Edward Manning, and he felt a certain sympathy for the Church of Rome.†
Chpt 7-8
- Hayward found it difficult to explain his beliefs to Philip without a great flow of words; but it was clear (and this fell in with Philip's idea of the natural order of things), that he had been brought up in the church by law established.†
Chpt 27-28
- He might just as well have been born in a Roman Catholic country as in England; and in England as well in a Wesleyan, Baptist, or Methodist family as in one that fortunately belonged to the church by law established.†
Chpt 27-28
- Philip found that Miss Price had not paid the last quarter's rent: on New Year's Day she had not given the concierge the present which old-established custom led him to regard as a right.
Chpt 47-48established = long-practiced
- He swept away the virtues and the vices, the established laws of good and evil, with the idea of finding out the rules of life for himself.†
Chpt 53-54
Definition:
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(establish as in: establish a positive tone) create, start, or set in [a] place