All 3 Uses of
establish
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The Odyssey, by Homer - (translated by: Butler)
- There he married, established himself, and had two famous sons Antiphates and Mantius.
Book 15established = settled
- But lines enclosed in brackets are almost always genuine; all that brackets mean is that the bracketed passage puzzled some early editor, who nevertheless found it too well established in the text to venture on omitting it.
Book Foot *established = set in place (accepted and expected)
- (endnote 135) Modern excavations establish the existence of two and only two pre-Dorian communities at Syracuse; they were, so Dr. Orsi informed me, at Plemmirio and Cozzo Pantano†
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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)