Established vs Founded - What's the difference?
established | founded |
(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.
(nonstandard, childish)
To set up; to launch; to institute.
Use as a basis for; grounded on.
As verbs the difference between established and founded
is that established is past tense of establish while founded is past participle of lang=en.As adjectives the difference between established and founded
is that established is of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area while founded is having a basis.established
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(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.
