stablish
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of stablish
1250–1300; Middle English stablissen, aphetic variant of establish
Example Sentences
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On the Lelantian plain thou stoodest, but it pleased thee not there to stablish a temple and a grove.
From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew
Hail, thou that dost bind up heads and dost stablish the bones of the neck when thou comest forth from the knives.
From Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings by Wilson, Epiphanius
Organizing Pennsylvania Synod.—To stablish the congregations, Muhlenberg, with five pastors and ten congregations, on August 26, 1748, organized the Pennsylvania Synod, then generally called "The United Congregations" or "The United Pastors."
From American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by Bente, F. (Friedrich)
He Himself prays for them, but it is, that the God of all grace might make them perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle them.
From Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary by Tyler, James Endell
I have come, being the envoy of Rā, to stablish Maāt upon the arm at the shining of Neith in the city of Mentchat and to adjudge the eye to him that shall scrutinize it.
From Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings by Wilson, Epiphanius
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