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Constitutional   /kˌɑnstətˈuʃənəl/   Listen
Constitutional

adjective
1.
Of benefit to or intended to benefit your physical makeup.
2.
Sanctioned by or consistent with or operating under the law determining the fundamental political principles of a government.  "Constitutional government" , "Constitutional guarantees"
3.
Existing as an essential constituent or characteristic.  Synonyms: built-in, inbuilt, inherent, integral.  "A constitutional inability to tell the truth"
4.
Constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup).  Synonyms: constituent, constitutive, organic.
noun
1.
A regular walk taken as a form of exercise.



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"Constitutional" Quotes from Famous Books



... this poor and isolated community freed itself from its gloomy bondage, the means by which it secularized its education and its government, won for itself the blessing of free thought and speech, and matured a system of constitutional liberty which has been the foundation of the American Union, rise in dignity to one of ...
— The Emancipation of Massachusetts • Brooks Adams

... Government possessed as much political wisdom as the Austrian Minister at the court of The Hague, they would have realized that the "kingdom of the Netherlands would never be consolidated as long as the constitutional and administrative union was not replaced by ...
— Belgium - From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day • Emile Cammaerts

... one important truth 1 have laboured to impress them, and I hope successfully. It is this: that the faithful carrying out of the principles of Constitutional Government is a departure from the American model, not an approximation to it, and, therefore, a departure from republicanism in its only workable shape. Of the soundness of this view of our case I entertain no doubt whatever; and though I meet with few persons to whom it seems to have occurred ...
— Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin • James, Eighth Earl of Elgin

... met, pursuant to adjournment, in July last, your assembly was interfered with and broken up by a large force of United States troops in battle array, who drove you hence, in gross violation of those constitutional rights which it was ...
— Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler • Pardee Butler

... they were taking the usual two-hours' constitutional—which is often the poor substitute for exercise in the case of reading men— and discussing together the chances of the coming scholarship examination, when they found themselves near a place called Gower's Mill, ...
— Julian Home • Dean Frederic W. Farrar


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