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Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Etymology
- From Latin constitutum, past participle of constituere. Constructed from the prefix con- and statuere (“‘to place, set’”).
Verb
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Infinitive to constitute |
Third person singular constitutes |
Simple past constituted |
Past participle constituted |
Present participle constituting |
to constitute (third-person singular simple present constitutes, present participle constituting, simple past and past participle constituted)
- To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
- Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority.-- Jeremy Taylor.
- To make up; to compose; to form.
- Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction.--Johnson.
- To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
- Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine.-- William Wordsworth.
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External links
- constitute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- constitute in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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