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Constitutive   Listen
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Constitutive  adj.  
1.
Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential. "An ingredient and constitutive part of every virtue."
2.
Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining.






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"Constitutive" Quotes from Famous Books



... isole; a l'exclusion de tout autre. SEULEMENT, rien de plus; pas davantage. SEVERE, rigoureux, sans indulgence; grave, austere. SEVIR, punir avec rigueur; exercer des ravages. SEXE, m., difference physique et constitutive entre l'homme et la femme; ensemble des personnes qui ont le meme sexe. SGANARELLE, personnage d'une piece de Moliere. SI, conj., en cas que, pourvu que, suppose que. SI, adv., tenement; aussi. SIAM, ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann

... February 24, or the downfall of Louis Philippe, to May 4, 1848, the date of the assembling of the constitutive assembly—the February period proper—may be designated as the prologue of the revolution. It officially expressed its' own character in this, that the government which it improvised declared itself "provisional;" and, like the government, everything that was ...
— The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte • Karl Marx

... croit pas par masse, on croit chacun pour soi. L'individu reste donc toujours juge, et juge inevitable de l'autorite intellectuelle qu'il accepte, ou de celle qui s'offre a lui. Nous n'avons pas a examiner si cette disposition constitutive de l'esprit humain est bonne ou mauvaise; la seule question que l'on en fait est vaine et sterile. Nous sommes necessairement amenes par l'observation physchologique a constater qu'il faut que l'homme croie a la fidelite du temoignage ...
— Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws • James Buchanan



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