Established vs Ensured - What's the difference?
established | ensured |
(establish)
Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 731:
(Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.
(ensure)
To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
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*:Thenne he cryed hym mercy and sayd Faire knyght for goddes loue slee me not / and I shall ensure the neuer werre ageynst thy lady / but be alwey toward her / Thenne Bors lete hym be
To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
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As verbs the difference between established and ensured
is that established is (establish) while ensured is (ensure).As an adjective established
is of a religion, church etc: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.established
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(en adjective)- Anglicanism did manage to strengthen its position in the southern English American colonies after Charles II's restoration (even in cosmopolitan New York), gaining established status in six out of the eventual thirteen.
Derived terms
* established church * long-establishedSynonyms
* (abbreviation)ensured
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(head)Anagrams
* *ensure
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(ensur)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}