Noun

(en noun)

The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

The state of being established, founded, etc.; fixed state.

That which is established; as a form of government, a permanent organization, business or force, or the place where one is permanently fixed for residence.

(slang) The establishment : the ruling class or authority group in a society; especially, an entrenched authority dedicated to preserving the status quo. Sometimes capitalized: the Establishment.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}

Noun

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A political philosophy opposed to the separation of a religious group ("church") and a government ("state"), especially the belief held by those in 19th century England opposed to separating the Anglican church from the civil government or to refer to separation of church and state.

* 1998 , University of Oklahoma College of Law, American Indian Law Review :

Jed Rubenfeld, who actually may not have been recycling a Boerne Court- rejected argument into a law review article,⁴⁵⁰ reasoned that RFRA indeed lacked constitutionality, but because of First Amendment antidisestablishmentarianism , and not the reasons offered by the Court.⁴⁵¹

* 2002 , Angela Hague and David Lavery (credited as editors, but truly authors of the compiled fictional reviews), Teleparody: predicting/preventing the TV discourse of tomorrow

The establishmentarianism of Hatch's alliance-building strategy undermined by the disestablishmentarianism of Wiglesworth's treachery triggers an antidisestablishmentarianism' in Hawk — but the negation of Wiglesworth's 'dis' coupled with the counter-negation of Hawk's 'anti' does not simply generate a synthetic affirmation of Hatch's 'establishmentarianism'. Instead, Hawk's ' antidisestablishmentarianism , like a cancerous wart on the end of the nose, is perched at the fuzzy border separating ontology from oncology, malignity from malignancy.