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/kənstˈɪtʃuənt/ Listen

noun

Constituent n.

1.

The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs. "Their first composure and origination require a higher and nobler constituent than chance."

2.

That which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an essential part; a component; an element. "We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water."

3.

One for whom another acts; especially, one who is represented by another in a legislative assembly; correlative to representative. "The electors in the district of a representative in Congress, or in the legislature of a State, are termed his constituents." "To appeal from the representatives to the constituents."

4.

(Law) A person who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.

adjective

Constituent adj.

1.

Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component. "Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man."

2.

Having the power of electing or appointing. "A question of right arises between the constituent and representative body."

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"Constituent" Quotes from Famous Books

... By this coronation-acclaim, two constituent elements of the world, which had been fundamentally at conflict with each other, became ...

— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke

... first place its mass, and the other constants which define its properties, are absolutely invariable; the individual molecule can neither grow nor decay, but remains unchanged amid all the changes of the bodies of which it may form a constituent. ...

— Five of Maxwell's Papers • James Clerk Maxwell

... saw how these rays by reciprocal influence and contact were increased in brilliancy, he became afraid and crept together into himself, member by member, and withdrew for union and strengthening back to his original constituent parts. Now once more he hastened back into the height, and the Light-Earth noticed the action of Satan and his purpose to seize and to attack and to destroy. But when she perceived this thereupon the world aeon of Insight perceived it, then the aeon of Wisdom, the aeon ...

— A Source Book for Ancient Church History • Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr., Ph.D.

... him for a libel, for any offence under the excise laws, for high treason, or, indeed for any offence where the prosecution was in the name of the King, that the worthy counsellor could not plead for his constituent the subject, against his master the King, unless the subject would submit to the juggle of taking out a licence, for which he must pay ten or twelve pounds to the King, to enable the gentleman with the silk gown to plead against the Crown. This caused a great sensation throughout the hall, ...

— Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 3 • Henry Hunt

... of the Christian doctrine concerning it, v. 312. endeavors of the French Constituent Assembly to desecrate it, v. 312. ends for which it was instituted, vii. 131. restraints upon it in the reign of ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XII. (of XII.) • Edmund Burke

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