The Collaborative International Dictionary
Constitute \Con"sti*tute\ (k[o^]n"st[ict]*t[=u]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Constituted; p. pr. & vb. n. Constituting.] [L. constitutus, p. p. of constiture to constitute; con- + statuere to place, set, fr. status station, fr. stare to stand. See Stand.]
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To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority.
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To make up; to compose; to form.
Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction.
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To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine.
--Wordsworth.Constituted authorities, the officers of government, collectively, as of a nation, city, town, etc.
--Bartlett.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: constitute)
WordNet
adj. brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established; "the established social order"; "distrust the constituted authority"; "a team established as a member of a major league"; "enjoyed his prestige as an established writer"; "an established precedent"; "the established Church" [syn: established] [ant: unestablished]
Usage examples of "constituted".
Hrriss had said nothing but he was bowing and grinning his jaw off its hinges and Hu stepped aside, gesturing toward the alcove which constituted his home office and held the communications equipment.
She must not think that these seating arrangements constituted a discourtesy.
She wasn't too sure that observing the giffs at close range constituted a proper holiday but the physician was equally keen to know more about the giffs.
Abruptly she decided that she'd better get out of the shuttle for a few moments: she was not constituted to sit still and do nothing.
He doubted this constituted an honor guard since he had gathered that Nokias and Ferngal outranked Chaumel.
The CPO in charge of the nearest crew sent men to secure those before they constituted an additional hazard.
Jim Rastancil, Geoffrey Ainger, Bob Reidenbacker, Bull Fetterman - in fact all those who constituted the Council, waited patiently for Scott, Zainal and Mitford to descend from the KDM which landed slightly ahead of its sister ship.
Despite himself, F'lar sighed, for those undoubtedly constituted the only edible portions of the entire beast.
After their submission, they constituted the western division of the European provinces, which extended from the columns of Hercules to the wall of Antoninus, and from the mouth of the Tagus to the sources of the Rhine and Danube.
Spain, Gaul, Britain, and Illyricum supplied the legions with excellent soldiers, and constituted the real strength of the monarchy.
The science of war, that constituted the more rational force of Greece and Rome, as it now does of Europe, never made any considerable progress in the East.
An army thus employed constituted perhaps the most useful, as well as the bravest, portion of Roman subjects.
The Christians, (it might specially be alleged,) renouncing the gods and the institutions of Rome, had constituted a distinct republic, which might yet be suppressed before it had acquired any military force.
We may learn from Polybius, Strabo, and Tacitus, that the profits of the fishery constituted the principal revenue of Byzantium.
The numbers of slaves and of cattle constituted an essential part of the report.