What is "establishes"

Usage examples of "establishes".

The priestly office by its own nature is superior to the kingly, and in all primitive nations with a separate, organized priesthood, whether a true priesthood or a corrupt, the priest is held to be above the king, elects or establishes the law by which is selected the temporal chief, and inducts him into his office, as if he received his authority from God through the priesthood.

The state, under God, is sovereign, and ordains and establishes the government, instead of making a contract, a bargain, or covenant, with it.

On the magnitude of this friction depends the velocity with which a light-impulse establishes itself in the medium of the resisting gravity.

We think no longer of submission to the irrevocable decrees of absolute dominion, but of participation in an adventure on behalf of a power that gains strength and establishes itself.