v. Obs. Also 6 astable, -bill, etabill. [ad. F. establ-ir (mod.F. établir) = Pr. establir, stablir, It. stabilire:—L. stabilīre, f. stabilis STABLE a. See also STABLE v.] trans. = ESTABLISH in various senses. To make stable; to settle, fix permanently; to secure, confirm; to decree; to make steady, support, calm (the mind).
[1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. I. 120. God of his goodnesse gan stable … þe heuene.]
c. 1386. Chaucer, Melib., ¶ 102. Be it so that youre emprise be establid and ordeyned by gret multitude of people.
1481. Caxton, Myrr., I. i. 7. He [God] is establed without ony meuyng.
1496–7. Act 12 Hen. VII., c. 8 § 1. The Kynge … enactith, ordeyneth and estableth that [etc.].
c. 1510. Barclay, Mirr. Good Mann. (1570), D. iij. This answere besemed … a man establed in magnanimitie.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, X. iv. 74. To comfort and astabill Hys hevy amorus thochtis ennoyus. Ibid., XIII. vi. 36. Thair myndis mesys and estabillis he.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, I. xvi. (1822), 74. Quhill he micht, under his name, etabill the kingdome of Romanis to him.
