Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To be the elements or parts of; compose.
- transitive verb To amount to; equal.
- transitive verb To set up or establish according to law or provision.
- transitive verb To found (an institution, for example).
- transitive verb To enact (a law or regulation).
- transitive verb To appoint to an office, dignity, function, or task; designate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To set; fix; establish.
- To enter into the formation of, as a necessary part; make what it is; form; make.
- To appoint, depute, or elect to an office or employment; make and empower: as, a sheriff is constituted a conservator of the peace; A has constituted B his attorney or agent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
- transitive verb To make up; to compose; to form.
- transitive verb To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
- transitive verb the officers of government, collectively, as of a nation, city, town, etc.
- noun obsolete An established law.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To cause to stand; to
establish ; toenact . - verb To
make up ; tocompose ; toform . - verb To
appoint , depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower. - noun obsolete An established
law .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb set up or lay the groundwork for
- verb to compose or represent:
- verb create and charge with a task or function
- verb form or compose
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English constituten, from Latin cōnstituere, cōnstitūt-, to set up : com-, com- + statuere, to set up; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]
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