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To disorder; to derange; to render unsound; as, to be shattered in intellect; his constitution was shattered; his hopes were shattered. A man of a loose, volatile, and shattered humor. Norris.

Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution. Mighty hearts are held in slender chains. Pope. They have inferred much from slender premises. J. H. Newman. The slender utterance of the consonants. J. Byrne.

A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar…

That branch of philosophy which treats of the constitution, phenomena, and development of human society; social science. H. Spencer.

Sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body. I. Watts.

diseased; not being in a morbid state; -- said of body or mind; as, a sound body; a sound constitution; a sound understanding.

ing moved or overthrown; as, the stability of a structure; the stability of a throne or a constitution.

trength or support of anything; power of endurance; backbone; vigor; as, the stamina of a constitution or of life; the stamina of a State. He succeeded to great captains who had sapped the whole stamina and resistance of the contest. De Quincey.

olitic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.

physical power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, a strong constitution; strong health.

Manner of building; form; make; construction. Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe. Woodward.

Not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged. "Stubbed, vulgar constitutions." Berkley.

, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution. The subversion [by a storm] of woods and timber . . . through my whole estate. Evelyn. Laws have been often abused to the oppression and subversion of that order they were intended to preserve. Rogers.…

Essential above others, or above the constitution of a thing. J. Ellis.

as wounds, dislocations, tumors, etc.), whether by manual operation, or by medication and constitutional treatment.

es, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment.

a susceptible heart. Candidates are . . . not very susceptible of affronts. Cowper. I am constitutionally susceptible of noises. Lamb. -- Sus*cep"ti*ble*ness, n. -- Sus*cep"ti*bly, adv.

A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.

Equivalent in value, signification, or effect. A usage nearly tantamount to constitutional right. Hallam. The certainty that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to ruin. De Quincey.

Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy. The exquisiteness of his [Christ's] bodily temper increased the exquisiteness of his torment. Fuller.