All 10 Uses of

establish

in

Look Homeward, Angel

She knew that the suggestion of a total disruption of the established life, a voyage to new lands, a new quest of fortune fascinated him.
Chpt 1 *

established = set in place

Eugene was loose now in the limitless meadows of sensation: his sensory equipment was so complete that at the moment of perception of a single thing, the whole background of color, warmth, odor, sound, taste established itself, so that later, the breath of hot dandelion brought back the grass-warm banks of Spring, a day, a place, the rustling of young leaves, or the page of a book, the thin exotic smell of tangerine, the wintry bite of great apples; or, as with Gulliver's Travels, a…
Chpt 1

established = settled

He was permitted to keep the money of his sales, although Eliza was annoyingly insistent that he should not squander it, but open a bank account with it with which, one day, he might establish himself in business, or buy a good piece of property.†
Chpt 1

establish = create, start, or set in a place

Several rich men from the North had established hunting lodges in the hills, and one of them had bought huge areas of mountain land and, with an army of imported architects, carpenters and masons, was planning the greatest country estate in America—something in limestone, with pitched slate roofs, and one hundred and eighty-three rooms.†
Chpt 1

At home he spent hours quietly absorbed in his life with Eugene, playing with him, cuffing him with his white hard hands from time to time, establishing with him a secret communication to which the life of the family had neither access nor understanding.†
Chpt 1

The old preposterous swagger, following the ancient whine, reappeared as soon as he felt himself safely established at home again.†
Chpt 1

Eliza's departure for Dixieland three or four years before, and the disruption of established life at Gant's, had begun the loosening of his first friendships with the neighborhood boys, Harry Tarkinton, Max Isaacs, and the others, and had now almost completely severed them.†
Chpt 2

He was, thus, an example of that sad liberalism of the village—an advanced thinker among the Methodists, a bearer of the torch at noon, an apologist for the toleration of ideas that have been established for fifty years.†
Chpt 2

Usually, these dignities—the presidencies of student bodies, classes, Y.M.C.A.'s, and the managerships of athletic teams—were given to some honest serf who had established his greatness behind a plough before working in the college commons, or to some industrious hack who had shown a satisfactory mediocrity in all directions.†
Chpt 3

Definitions:

(1) (establish as in: establish a positive tone)
create, start, or set in [a] place
(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)