[f. as prec. + -ER1.] One who establishes (in senses of vb.).
a. 1600. Hooker, Eccl. Pol. (1617), 613. The first founders and establishers of them.
a. 1677. Barrow, Wks. (1741), II. xx. 215. God being the author and establisher of nature.
1812. Examiner, 13 Sept., 577/2. Luck and not genius was the establisher of his [Napoleon’s] greatness.
1824–9. Landor, Imag. Conv. (1846), I. 93. That the foudre is rather a destroyer than an establisher.
