CONSTRUCT

v. a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice.

2.
v.

To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics.

3.
a.

Formed by, or relating to, construction, interpretation, or inference. Construct form or state (Heb. Gram.), that of a noun used before another which has the genitive relation to it.