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noun

Constituent n.

1.

The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs. "Their first composure and origination require a higher and nobler constituent than chance."

2.

That which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an essential part; a component; an element. "We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water."

3.

One for whom another acts; especially, one who is represented by another in a legislative assembly; correlative to representative. "The electors in the district of a representative in Congress, or in the legislature of a State, are termed his constituents." "To appeal from the representatives to the constituents."

4.

(Law) A person who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.

adjective

Constituent adj.

1.

Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component. "Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man."

2.

Having the power of electing or appointing. "A question of right arises between the constituent and representative body."

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... into brigades, regiments, and battalions, and regularly officered. In marching, it was separated into these its constituent parts, and sometimes in battle it acted in divisions. It was stationed in the center of the army on the field, and on the two sides of it were bodies of cavalry and foot soldiers, more lightly armed than the soldiers of the phalanx, who could accordingly move with more alertness and speed, and ...

— Alexander the Great - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

... are the securities which we have in all the constituent parts of the body of this House. We know them, we reckon, we rest upon them, and commit safely the interests of India and of humanity into your hands. Therefore, it is with confidence that, ordered by the ...

— The Ontario High School Reader • A.E. Marty

... at the Pavilion of Flora seemed not only to give universal satisfaction to every individual of the Royal Family, but it was hailed with much enthusiasm by many deputies of the constituent Assembly. I was honoured with the respective visits of all who were in any degree well disposed to ...

— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

... a 120-member constituent assembly based on proportional representation within each province was established following the UN-supervised election in May 1993; the constituent assembly was transformed into a legislature in September 1993 after ...

— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency

... practical and scientific men interested in the coffee business. This elusive material has been variously called caffeol, caffeone, "the essential oil of coffee," etc., the terms having acquired an ambiguous and incorrect significance. It is now generally agreed that the aromatic constituent of coffee is not an essential oil, but a complex of compounds which usage has caused to be ...

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