Constitute

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  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To be the elements or parts of; compose.
  • transitive verb. To amount to; equal.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To set up or establish according to law or provision.
  • transitive verb. To found (an institution, for example).
  • transitive verb. To enact (a law or regulation).
  • transitive verb. To appoint to an office, dignity, function, or task; designate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To set; fix; establish.
  • To enter into the formation of, as a necessary part; make what it is; form; make.
  • To appoint, depute, or elect to an office or employment; make and empower: as, a sheriff is constituted a conservator of the peace; A has constituted B his attorney or agent.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
  • transitive verb. To make up; to compose; to form.
  • transitive verb. To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
  • transitive verb. the officers of government, collectively, as of a nation, city, town, etc.
  • noun. An established law.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
  • verb. To make up; to compose; to form.
  • verb. To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
  • noun. An established law.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. set up or lay the groundwork for
  • verb. to compose or represent:
  • verb. create and charge with a task or function
  • verb. form or compose
  • Word Usage
    "We can dick around over what types of physical or mental pain constitute torture, but there doesn't seem like too much debate that "torture" means "something that is really really painful that would be used in extreme (or under no) circumstances.""
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