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.
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vb. (present participle of constitute English)
Usage examples of "constituting".
This simply represses the networks of communions that are just as important as agency in constituting the manifestation of Spirit.
Then, according to Meinong, we have to distinguish three elements which are necessarily combined in constituting the one thought.
It is only in those cases in which the unity of the system of appearances constituting a piece of matter has to be broken up, that the statement of what is happening cannot be made exclusively in terms of matter.
Every particular of the sort considered by physics is a member of two groups (1) The group of particulars constituting the other aspects of the same physical object.
In the first place, everything constituting a memory-belief is happening now, not in that past time to which the belief is said to refer.
I, personally, do not profess to be able to analyse the sensations constituting respectively memory, expectation and assent.
This whole experience, when it occurs, may be defined as verification, and as constituting the truth of the expectation.
The nerves and brain are matter: our visual sensations when we look at them may be, and I think are, members of the system constituting irregular appearances of this matter, but are not the whole of the system.
I think that, if our scientific knowledge were adequate to the task, which it neither is nor is likely to become, it would exhibit the laws of correlation of the particulars constituting a momentary condition of a material unit, and would state the causal laws* of the world in terms of these particulars, not in terms of matter.
Piaget refers to such magical cognitions as a form of "participation" that is, the subject and the object, and various objects themselves, are "linked" by certain types of adherences, or felt connections, connections that nonetheless violate the rich fabric of relations actually constituting the object.
They employed it to write syllables or letters constituting grammatical endings.
A total of 241 signs or letters was neatly divided by etched vertical lines into groups of several signs, possibly constituting words.
In place of steel, Native Americans used clubs and axes of stone or wood (occasionally copper in the Andes), slings, bows and arrows, and quilted armor, constituting much less effective protection and weaponry.
I am conscious, therefore, of the identical self with respect to the manifold of the representations, which are given to me in an intuition, because I call them, altogether, my representations, as constituting one.
It is, therefore, a synthesis of perceptions, which synthesis itself is not contained in the perception, but contains the synthetical unity of the manifold of the perceptions in a consciousness, that unity constituting the essential of our knowledge of the objects of the senses, i.