Constitute definition
To make up; be the components or elements of; form; compose.
Twelve people constitute a jury.
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To amount to; equal.
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To found (an institution, for example).
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To give a certain office or function to; appoint.
Our officially constituted spokesperson.
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To set up (an assembly, proceedings, etc.) in a legal or official form.
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To appoint to an office, dignity, function, or task; designate.
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To set up (a law, government, institution, etc.); establish.
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To be actually as designated; meet the definition of or be tantamount to.
Such action constitutes a felony.
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To be the elements or parts of; compose.
Copper and tin constitute bronze.
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To set up or establish according to law or provision.
A body that is duly constituted under the charter.
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To enact (a law or regulation).
verb
The definition of constitute means to set up or to have the pieces of something.
An example of constitute is for a one room schoolhouse to be made up of students of all different ages.
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Origin of constitute
- Middle English constituten from Latin cōnstituere cōnstitūt- to set up com- com- statuere to set up stā- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Latin constitutum, past participle of constituere. Constructed from the prefix con- and statuere (“to place, set”).
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