verb

1. To make stable or firm; to confirm.

2. To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.

3. To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.

adjective

1. Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted.

2. Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.

3. (Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.

Synonyms: estd.