stablishment arch.
(ˈstæblɪʃmənt)
[var. of establishment. Cf. stablish v. and -ment.]
1. The action of stablishing or establishing; the condition of being established.
| 1444 Rolls of Parlt. V. 75/2 For the perpetuell stablesshement of the same College. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 133 b, So the stablysshmentes in vertue, & the delectacyons in good workes..ben the fruytes of the holy goost. 1617 Hieron Penance for Sin Wks. 1620 II. 268 ‘Stablish mee with Thy free Spirit’. Here two things:..First, the particularity of the fauour which Dauid craues, stablishment, confirmation in good. 1677 Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. i. iv. 144 Not to be punished for sin is the stablissement of Sin. a 1711 Ken Hymns Festiv. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 338 May we..Thy sacred Truth embrace, With strength of Faith, and Stablishment in Grace. 1898 S. Evans Holy Graal 103 Prayer to God that He would recover back the walls in such stablishment as they were aforetime. |
b. Confirmed possession.
| 1606 Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. vi. 9 Vnto her He gaue the stablishment of Egypt. |
† 2. Something established, a statute, ordinance.
| 1387–8 T. Usk Test. Love iii. i. (Skeat) 132 Under whiche lawe..bothe..arn..bounden..as by knotte of loves statutes and stablisshment in kynde. 1473 Rolls of Parlt. VI. 83/1 Any other Acte, Statute, Stablisshement or Ordenaunce, made or to be made in this present Parlement. |
3. A means of establishing or strengthening.
| 1533 More Confut. Tindale vii. Wks. 665/1 To thentent that his catholike church may be to euery man that wil learne therof & giue credence therunto as himself commaundeth eueri man to do, a very sure stablishment and a stronge pyller of trouthe. |