1. To cause to stand; to establish; to enact. Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority. Jer. Taylor.
2. To make up; to compose; to form. Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction. Johnson.
3. To appoint, depute, or elect to an offie; to make and empower. Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine. Wordsworth. Constituted authorities, the officers of government, collectively, as of a nation, city, town, etc. Bartlett.
CONSTITUTE
Con"sti*tute, n.
Defn: An established law. [Obs.] T. Preston.
CONSTITUTER
Con"sti*tu`ter, n.
Defn: One who constitutes or appoints.
CONSTITUTION
Con`sti*tu"tion, n. Etym: [F. constitution, L. constitute.]
1. The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.
2. The state of being; that form of being, or structure and connection of parts, which constitutes and characterizes a system or body; natural condition; structure; texture; conformation. The physical constitution of the sun. Sir J. Herschel.