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verb

Constitute v. t. (past & past part. constituted; pres. part. constituting)

To cause to stand; to establish; to enact. "Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority."

To make up; to compose; to form. "Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction."

To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower. "Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine."

Constituted authorities, the officers of government, collectively, as of a nation, city, town, etc.

noun

Constitute n. An established law. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... honest in their intentions, and patriotic in their feelings; who are prepared to listen to the voice of reason, and the injunctions, admonitions and warnings of Divine Revelation. It is to them I appeal. Thank God, I believe that they constitute a large majority ...

— A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin - or, An Essay on Slavery • A. Woodward

... but for you and I to constitute ourselves into a permanent "Committee of Public Safety," to watch over what is being done and take measures with the advice of others when necessary...As for — and id genus omne, I have never expected anything but opposition from them. But I don't think it ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley

... love of knowledge; others, again, in a natural impatience of inaction, or a rebellion against the commonplaces and conventionalities of society, a yearning after the romantic and adventurous. But, generally speaking, they constitute two great classes: those who discover, and those who observe—that is, those who penetrate into regions hitherto untrodden by civilized men, and add new lands to the maps of the geographer; and those who simply follow in the track of their bolder or more fortunate ...

— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams

... at his meetings of Council, and during the discussions that are there provoked, that the Indian's powers of oratory come, for the most part, into play, and secure their freest indulgence, that will appropriately constitute my ...

— A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians • James Bovell Mackenzie

... ornamental dishes, at the four corners of a wide table, to balance the flowers in the centre; or, they may be arranged along the middle of a long table. For fruit, silver-gilt baskets, or epergnes of glass are especially pretty. The fruit may later constitute a part of the dessert, or may be merely ornamental in its office. Carafes containing iced water are placed here and there on ...

— Etiquette • Agnes H. Morton

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