CONSTITUTE

v. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To cause to stand; to establish; to enact. Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority. Jer. Taylor.

2.
v.

To make up; to compose; to form. Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction. Johnson.

3.
v.

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.

4.
n.

An established law. [Obs.] T. Preston.

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