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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.

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... powerful sovereigns of Europe declared war against her. The manifests were both issued on the same day. That of the King of England is strongly marked by the duplicity which was the distinguishing characteristic both of himself and of his court as then constituted. From the style of the document one might be led to suppose that he was forced into the war with extreme reluctance and regret, and only in consequence of the impossibility of obtaining redress by any other means for the deep injuries he had sustained. He ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 • Editor-In-Chief Rossiter Johnson

... in bumpers of champagne, and I then adjourned to Cochrane's room for coffee and liqueurs and a talk over old days on the Bear. And the afternoon in that cosy, sunlit cabin, the blessed sensation of rest after toil combined with a luxurious lounge and delicious cigar, constituted as near an approach to "Nirvana" as the writer is ever likely to attain on this ...

— From Paris to New York by Land • Harry de Windt

... to aid the producer in securing returns according to the a14 of his product. A revolving loan fund should be provided for the necessary financing until these agencies shall have developed means of financing their operations through regularly constituted credit institutions. Such a bill should carry authority for raising the money, by loans or otherwise, necessary to meet the expense, as the Treasury has ...

— State of the Union Addresses of Calvin Coolidge • Calvin Coolidge

... qualification. What rendered it worse was that his good nature—and indeed every one of his gifts, which were all of the popular order—was subservient to an assumption not only self-satisfied but obtrusive!—And yet—and yet—the objectionable character of his self-constituted judge being clear as the moon to the mind of the curate, was there not something in what he had said? This much remained undeniable at least, that when the very existence of the church was denounced as a humbug in the hearing of one who ate her bread, and was ...

— Thomas Wingfold, Curate • George MacDonald

... to illustrate the general truth that local government was democratic in New England and aristocratic in Virginia; in the former colony the mass of voters took part most actively in local government, while in the latter a few men constituted the ruling class. This does not mean that local affairs in Virginia were badly managed, for the leading men were on the whole intelligent and public-spirited; and in the years of the Revolution they ...

— Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition • J.A. James

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