Constitute
['kɒnstɪtjuːt] or ['kɑnstətut]
Definition
(verb.) form or compose; 'This money is my only income'; 'The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance'; 'These constitute my entire belonging'; 'The children made up the chorus'; 'This sum represents my entire income for a year'; 'These few men comprise his entire army'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
(v. t.) To make up; to compose; to form.
(v. t.) To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
(n.) An established law.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Form, compose, make, make up, enter into the composition of.[2]. Appoint, depute, empower.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Form, make, compose, appoint, depute, organize, institute
ANT:Dissolve, destroy, discompose, decompose, disorganize, abrogate, annul, unmake
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Definition
v.t. to set up: to establish: to form or compose: to appoint: to determine.—n. Constit′uency the whole body of voters for a member of parliament.—adj. Constit′uent constituting or forming: essential: elemental: component.—n. an essential or elemental part: one of those who elect a representative esp. in parliament.—n. Constitū′tion the act of constituting: the natural condition of body or mind: disposition: a system of laws and customs established by the sovereign power of a state for its own guidance: the established form of government: a particular law or usage.—adj. Constitū′tional inherent in the natural frame: natural: agreeable to the constitution or frame of government: essential: legal: of a sovereign who rules subject to fixed laws.—n. a walk for the sake of one's health.—v.t. Constitū′tionalise to make constitutional.—ns. Constitū′tionalism adherence to the principles of the constitution; Constitū′tionalist Constitū′tionist one who favours the constitution; Constitutional′ity the state or quality of being constitutional.—adv. Constitū′tionally.—adj. Con′stitutive that constitutes or establishes: having power to enact &c.: essential.
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Examples
- These conditions, stated in an orderly sequence, would constitute the method or way or manner of its growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- My wife and a lodger constitute my family. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- From the cooling and cont racting masses that were to constitute the planets smaller zones and rings were formed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The two pointed pieces of hard conducting carbon used for the separated terminals constitute the voltaic arc light--a light only excelled in intense brilliancy by the sun itself. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- While they are an indispensable portion of scientific method, they do not as a matter of course constitute scientific method. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This foresight and this survey with reference to what is foreseen constitute mind. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- McClernand commanding, will constitute the right wing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- To-day the friction match is turned out by automatic machinery by the million, and constitutes probably the most ubiquitous and useful of all the minor inventions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A larger number constitutes the multipolar machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Day after tomorrow is the bridge and this man is bad and he constitutes a danger to the success of the whole enterprise. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The fee or honorary, which the scholar pays to the master, naturally constitutes a revenue of this kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The spontaneous development of our organs and capacities constitutes the education of Nature. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I believe we are justified in believing that he constitutes a danger to the Republic-- Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The very feeling constitutes our praise or admiration. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never had in possession. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- To secure such an exchange was, as you will remember, one of our principal objects when we formed them into a society and constituted a State. Plato. The Republic.
- Her guardian, however, he is, self-constituted as I believe; but his ward is as dear to him as if she were his own child. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The results of the work of the senses, preserved in memory and imagination, and applied in the skill given by habit, constituted experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They are as old as religion, and have been found wherever evidence of religious rites of any description have been found, as they constituted part of the instrumentalities of such rites. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The hind axle constituted the rear member of the frame and the front axle was swiveled at its center to the front end of the hollow square, in which the motor and countershaft were placed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The Night Shadows A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Silica is also met with in the carnelian and we find it constituting jasper, agate, cat’s-eye, onyx and opals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It would be impossible and uninteresting in a work of this character to enumerate the mechanical details constituting the improvements of the century in paper-making machinery of all kinds. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The ordinary telephone connection consists of two wires technically called a telephone circuit, each wire constituting one side of the circuit. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Later on a treaty was made with the Republic of Panama whereby the United States was granted control of a ten-mile strip constituting the Canal Zone. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the cellar of the Edison homestead young Alva soon accumulated a chemical outfit, constituting the first in a long series of laboratories. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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