Definitions
1.verbTo make stable or firm; to confirm.
2.verbTo form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
3.verbTo appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
4.verbTo prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.
5.adjectiveHaving been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted.
6.adjectiveOf a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
7.adjective(Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.