All 9 Uses of

establish
in
The Sunlight Dialogues

The king rules, establishes simple laws and so on, but he judges by what we would call whim--though it isn't whim, of course: it's the whole complex of his experience and intuition as a man trained and culturally established as finally responsible.
Chpt 7

established = set in place

No sooner were the words established in his mind than his belly closed tight and sour around the thought of his uncle.
Chpt 8 *

established = created

or so it seemed, from time to time, to Will Hodge Sr. (Ben would stand in his yard at the Other Place—as they all still called it, even now that Stony Hill was gone—a man still handsome though grown red-faced and heavy at fifty, his head tipped back, looking through the lower halves of his thick, dark-tinted steel-rimmed glasses at the newly delivered corn chopper, or the twenty-year-old wired-together baler, and the look on his face and in his stance was like a child's, solemn, deeply satisfied, detached as a sunlit mystical vision from the dying tamaracks, tumble-down barns, and the high, orange-yellow old brick house that labored in vain to establish for Ben Hodge his spiritual limits.†
Chpt 3

The king rules, establishes simple laws and so on, but he judges by what we would call whim—though it isn't whim, of course: it's the whole complex of his experience and intuition as a man trained and culturally established as finally responsible.†
Chpt 7

At best the lawyer established a precedent: a man sentenced to life in prison instead of the chair because of "extenuating emotional circumstances.†
Chpt 8

At the age of fifty-one he'd established a boys' camp, had risked bankruptcy for it, stamping his troubled image into the Catskill Mountains: a huge stone lodge, a chapel, cabins, a long white dock and boathouses.†
Chpt 11

The proper place of intellect, then, is to establish the cultural norms—build the highway, so to speak, down which lovers can unthinkingly speed.†
Chpt 11

The idea of pressures—order establishing itself that way—as if society were a pond in a field, where natural balance comes about by itself—so many tadpoles, so many water bugs, so many thises, so many that's—that is to say ...†
Chpt 13

SUNLIGHT: The poet sets up two parallel scenes—one at the beginning of the first tablet, the other at the end of the eleventh tablet—as a frame which symbolically establishes the futility of the quest.†
Chpt 15

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)