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Constitutive adj.

Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential. "An ingredient and constitutive part of every virtue."

Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining.

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Etymology of 'Constitutive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Constitutive" Quotes from Famous Books

... personal and the national tone-poet, the singer of his own joys and sorrows and that of his country's. But, while distinguishing these two aspects, we must take care not to regard them as two separate things. They were a duality the constitutive forces of which alternately assumed supremacy. The national poet at no time absorbed the personal, the personal poet at no time disowned the national. His imagination was always ready to conjure up his native atmosphere, ...

— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks

... his crown and in the name of religion to stop the pernicious progress of the commons, yielded at last, and promised everything. It was decided that he should go in state to the assembly, annul its decrees, command the separation of the orders as constitutive of the monarchy, and himself fix the reforms to be effected by the states-general. From that moment the privy council held the government, acting no longer secretly, but in the most open manner. ...

— History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 • F. A. M. Mignet

Words linked to "Constitutive" : organic, constituent, constitutional