Obs. Also 5 stabilement, establement. [a. OF. establement, f. establir: see STABLE v. and -MENT. Cf. L. stabilīmentum.] a. An ordinance, regulation: = ESTABLISHMENT. b. Something that establishes or supports.
c. 1400. trans. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh., 55. First soueraynly it fallys to a kynge þat he attempre hym with trewe stablements & lawes.
1423. City Lond. Cal. Let. Bk. I (1909), 290. And if ony … wolde take onything ageyn this stabilement, no man be bounden to obeye to him. Ibid., 291. If any fele him greved ageyn this establement.
1481. Tully of Old Age (Caxton) i. 1 b (R.). The life to come is the stablement and the propre house of myne undedly soule.
a. 1603. T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N. T. (1618), 554. The Church of Rome is the pillar and stablement of truth.
