Establish vs Vanquish - What's the difference?
establish | vanquish |
To make stable or firm; to confirm.
*
To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
* , (w) 6:18
To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=4 To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.
To defeat, to overcome.
* Clarendon
* Atterbury
As verbs the difference between establish and vanquish
is that establish is to make stable or firm; to confirm while vanquish is to defeat, to overcome.establish
English
Verb
(es)- But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
citation, passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.}}
Derived terms
* established church * establishing shot * long-establishedReferences
* *vanquish
English
Verb
(es)- They vanquished the rebels in all encounters.
- This bold assertion has been fully vanquished in a late reply to the Bishop of Meaux's treatise.