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Constitutive   Listen
adjective
Constitutive  adj.  
1.
Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential. "An ingredient and constitutive part of every virtue."
2.
Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining.





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"Constitutive" Quotes from Famous Books



... invention. The strophe, antistrophe, and epode, were nothing but certain measures performed by a chorus of dancers, in harmony with the voice; certain movements in dancing correspondent to the subject, which were all along considered as a constitutive part of the performance. The dancing even governed the measure of the stanzas; as the signification of the words strophe and antistrophe, plainly imports, they might be properly called danced himns. The truth is, that tragedy and comedy, made also ...
— A Treatise on the Art of Dancing • Giovanni-Andrea Gallini


Words linked to "Constitutive" :   essential, constituent, organic, constitutional


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