constitute

[Con·sti*tute]

To constitute is to make up a whole from smaller parts, or "constituents." "What constitutes a family?" means "What makes up a family?"

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To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

Verb
set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department"

Verb
create and charge with a task or function; "nominate a committee"

Verb
form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise h

Verb
to compose or represent:"This wall forms the background of the stage setting"; "The branches made a roof"; "This makes a fine introduction"

v. t.
To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

v. t.
To make up; to compose; to form.

v. t.
To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.

n.
An established law.

Constitute

Con"sti*tute , 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.] 1. To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority.

2. To make up; to compose; to form.

Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction.

3. To appoint, depute, or elect to an offie; 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. Bartlett.

Constitute

Con"sti*tute , n. An established law. [Obs.] T. Preston.

To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

An established law.

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Usage Examples

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

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Other Usage Examples

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?

To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.

We should believe in the strength and vitality of the values which constitute the E.U. and which neighbouring states can believe in and aspire to join.