established
/ɪˈstæb.lɪʃt/ adjective B2- Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted. · Near-synonyms: long-standing, accomplished (of faits accomplis), in place
- Having been successful for a long time and therefore recognized and generally respected. · Near-synonym: accomplished
- Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
- Of any social or economic entity: part of the establishment (“groups with socioeconomic power”).
- Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.
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Upon issuing forth from his subterranean retreat at the expiration of five minutes, he found the abbé seated upon a wooden stool, leaning his elbow on a table, while Margotin, whose animosity seemed appeased by the unusual command of the traveller for refreshments, had crept up to him, and had established himself very comfortably between his knees, his long, skinny neck resting on his lap, while his dim eye was fixed earnestly on the traveller’s face.
When the two were established at a well-appointed table, with a promising waiter hovering in attendance, Chandler began to experience the real joy that his regular outing always brought to him.
But this gentleman has assured me that he will buy me out as soon as we have established our claim.
He was indeed a scion of one of the very oldest families in the kingdom, though his branch was a cadet one which had separated from the northern Musgraves some time in the sixteenth century, and had established itself in western Sussex, where the Manor House of Hurlstone is perhaps the oldest inhabited building in the county.
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