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Constitutional   /kˌɑnstətˈuʃənəl/   Listen
Constitutional

adjective
1.
Of benefit to or intended to benefit your physical makeup.
2.
Sanctioned by or consistent with or operating under the law determining the fundamental political principles of a government.  "Constitutional government" , "Constitutional guarantees"  Antonym: unconstitutional.
3.
Existing as an essential constituent or characteristic.  Synonyms: built-in, inbuilt, inherent, integral.  "A constitutional inability to tell the truth"
4.
Constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup).  Synonyms: constituent, constitutive, organic.
noun
1.
A regular walk taken as a form of exercise.



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"Constitutional" Quotes from Famous Books



... strength of re-election, but really developing the national notion. In reply to a letter addressed to him by the whigs of Chautauque county, desiring his consent to stand as one of their candidates for the delegates to the Constitutional Convention, ex-Governor Seward wrote a reply of which the following ...
— Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 • Richard Henry Bonnycastle
... see his seventeenth birthday, and even then was strong and healthy. Their fragility is more apparent than real, and if they are not exposed to cold or damp, they require less pampering than they usually receive. This cause has been a frequent source of constitutional weakness, and it was deplorably a fault in the Italian Greyhounds of half ...
— Dogs and All About Them • Robert Leighton
... with quick watering eyes; "it is not right at all; but it is constitutional with me. I never can talk to other people of what concerns my own ...
— Queechy, Volume II • Elizabeth Wetherell
... contempt from Pleasure, as an infidelity to the dead. Ambition crept over him—his mind hardened as his cheek bronzed under those burning suns—his hardy frame, his energies prematurely awakened, his constitutional disregard to danger,—made him a brave and skilful soldier. He acquired reputation and rank. But, as time went on, the ambition took a higher flight—he felt his sphere circumscribed; the Eastern indolence that filled up the long intervals between Eastern action chafed ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 4 • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... our readers. As to her person, it is only sufficient to say that she was a tall, beautiful girl, of exceeding grace and wonderful proportions. There was, however, a softness about her appearance of constitutional delicacy that seemed to be incompatible with a strong mind, or perhaps we should rather say that was identical with an excess of feeling. This was exhibited in the tenderness of her attachment to Agnes Hamilton, and in the ...
— The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton


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