(transitive) To make stable or firm; to confirm. / (transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.

The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation. / The state of being established, founded, etc.; fixed state.

simple past tense and past participle of estimate

A female given name from Hebrew, alternative form of Esther

(obsolete) A hypothetical fourth class of civic subjects, or fourth body (in Britain, after the Crown, and the two Houses of Parliament) which governed legislation.

Opposed to the existing sociopolitical system (the establishment).

(idiomatic) A ballpark figure; a very rough approximation.

A church that is officially recognized as a national or state church by a government; in England it is the Church of England.

simple past tense and past participle of establish

Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted. / Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.