establishing

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm. [1913 Webster]

So were the churches established in the faith.— Acts xvi. 5.[1913 Webster]

The best established tempers can scarcely forbear being borne down.— Burke.[1913 Webster]

Confidence which must precede union could be established only by consummate prudence and self-control.— Bancroft.[1913 Webster]

2.To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain. [1913 Webster]

By the consent of all, we were established The people's magistrates.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed.— Dan. vi. 8.[1913 Webster]

3.To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state, or other institutions. [1913 Webster]

He hath established it [the earth], he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited.— Is. xlv. 18.[1913 Webster]

Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!— Hab. ii. 12.[1913 Webster]

4.To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc. [1913 Webster]

At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.— Deut. xix. 15.[1913 Webster]

5.To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel. [1913 Webster]