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well-eˈstablished, ppl. a.
1709Shaftesbury Inq. Virtue Charac. (1711) II. 38 That sound and well-establish'd Reason, which alone can constitute..a uniform and steddy Will and Resolution. 1741Watts Improv. Mind i. xviii. §27 We ought..to stand firm in such well-established principles, and not be tempted to change..for the sake of every difficulty. 1772Ann. Reg. 188/1 There are therefore many well-established families in this last-mentioned place. 1865Lubbock Prehist. Times xi. 337 Although there are some well-established cases of national decay. 1870Bowen Logic xii. 394 Any well-established Law of Nature. 1887Spons' Househ. Man. 714 Some well-established shop, famed rather for the soundness of its goods than for their apparent cheapness. |