establishment, establyshmente

[0. Fr. establi ement; Fr. établi ement; Sp. estableci mien to; Port. establecimento; Ital. stab i limen to.] *1. The act or proce of establishing or making firm or steady. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. "Bent all their forces to the establishment of received truths." Bishop Hall : Meditations and Vows , Cont. 2. 7. A founding or settling permanently; as, the establishment of a colony. *8. A state of being established or of settlement. "Vntill he had her settled in her raine, With safe as sur a unce and establishment ." IMG:content-1150.png:[blocks in formation] "Yes, you have felt, and may not cease to feel The estate of man would be indeed forlorn." Words worth. Excursion, bk. iv. "Who hath not heard of the greatne of your estate ? Who seeth not that your estate is much excelled with that sweet uniting of all beauties?"-Sidney. *5. A person of high rank, dignity, or position. "Herod, on his birth-day, made a supper to his lords, high-captains, and chief estates of Galilee."- Mark vi. 21. 6. A cla or order of men in a nation invested with political rights; as, in Great Britain the estates of the realm are the lords spiritual, the lords tem- poral, and the commons. "That question the Estates of Scotland could not evade."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. xiii. *7. The general public interests or affairs; the state; the general body politic. "Many times the things adduced to judgment may be meum et tuum, when the reason and consequences thereof may reach to point of estate : I call matters of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoever introduceth any great alteration, or dangerous precedent, or con- E ays. cerneth manifestly any great portion of people."- Bacon : 8. A piece of landed property: a domain. 9. Property, po e ions, fortune. "They have lived for harsher servitude, Whether in soul, in body, or estate ! " 10. In the same sense as II. 2. II. Law : 1. The interest or amount of interest which a man has in lands, tenements, or other effects. Real estate consists of freehold lands, tenements, or hereditaments; personal estate comprises interests in lands, tenements, or hereditaments for a term of years, and all other property. The former descends to the heirs; the latter to the executors or admin- istrators. IMG:content-1151.png:[blocks in formation] affection blended with esteem : it is in the power of every man, independently of all collateral circum- stances, to acquire the esteem of others; but respect and regard are within the reach of a limited num- ber only: the high and the low, the rich and the poor, the equal and the unequal, are each, in their turn, the objects of esteem ; those only are objects of respect who have some mark of distinction or superiority, either of birth, talent, acquire- ments, or the like; regard subsists only between friends, or those who stand in close connection with each other: industry and sobriety excito our esteem for one man, charity and benevolence our esteem for another; superior learning or abilities excito our respect for another; a long acquaintance, or a rec i- pro city of kind offices, excites a mutual regard ." (Crabb: Eng. Synon .) ěs-teēm, s. (Fr.estime.) [ESTEEM, v.] *1. Valuation, price, value, worth. "The full esteem in gold."-J. Webster . 2. Estimation, opinion, or judgment as to merit or demerit. 3. To settle as an estate or fortune. "All the revenue that was old Sir Rowland's will I estate upon you."- Shakesp .: As You Like It , v. 2. *es-tate-lich, *es-tat-ly, a . [Eng. estate; -lich , 3. To value or rate highly; to prize; to hold in high estimation. "Me and my po e ions she esteems not." Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen , iii. 1. "'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed." Shakesp.: Sonnet 121. cometh him to esteme ." - Bible (1551); Romans xx. 2. To think, to consider, to hold an opinion. est her i an about the Upper Trias. They have been found in this country, England, Scotland, and Ireland, in France, Germany, Ru ia, Central India, ., and wherever they occur tend to prove the stratum in which they are found not to be marine.