ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ED1.] In senses of the vb. Established Church: see CHURCH 5 c, and ESTABLISH v. 7. Established clerk, servant, etc.: one on the ‘establishment,’ in permanent employ. Established list, the list of those in permanent employ.
1642. T. Lechford (title), Plain Dealing…. A short view of New-Englands present Government … compared with the … established Government of England.
1672–5. Comber, Comp. Temple (1702), 81. All Establisht Protestant Churches do approve, and use prescribed Forms.
1682. Claverhouse, in M. Morris, Life, vi. (1888), 93. [The king] was relenting nothing of his … care of maintaining the established government.
1754. Smart, Power Supreme Being, 10 (R.). Rul’d by establish’d laws and current nature.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., 135–6. We are resolved to keep an established church, an established monarchy, an established aristocracy, and an established democracy, each in the degree it exists, and in no greater.
1824. L. Murray, Eng. Gram. (ed. 5), I. 5. They respect some of the established principles and arrangements of the language.
1849. Ruskin, Sev. Lamps, vii. § 3. 186. The architecture of a nation is great only when it is as universal and as established as its language.
1865. Earle, Sax. Chron., Notes 340. One of the established sensation scenes of history.
1888. Pall Mall Gaz., 25 April, 10/2. A return of the number of established and unestablished servants [in the Post Office].
