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In accordance with, or authorized by, the constitution of a state or a society; as, constitutional reforms.

In accordance with the constitution or natural disposition of the mind or body; naturally; as, he was constitutionally timid. The English were constitutionally humane. Hallam.

According to custom; customary; usual. [R.]

d sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning. According to all the light that the contexts afford. Sharp.

The entry of such adjuornment and the grounds thereof on the record.

nes. Such slave was considered contraband of war. [U.S.] Contraband of war, that which, according to international law, cannot be supplied to a hostile belligerent except at the risk of seizure and condemnation by the aggrieved belligerent. Wharton.

Pertaining to, or according to the rules of, counterpoint.

ainst in words or writings; to contest; to debate. Some controverted points had decided according to the sense of the best jurists. Macaulay.

Consistent; accordant; suitable; proper; as, convenable remedies. [Obs.] With his wod his work is convenable. Spenser.

which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage. All the artifice and conventionalism of life. Hawthorne. They gaze on all with dead, dim eyes, -- wrapped in conventionalisms, . . . simulating feelings according to a received stand…

To represent according to an established principle, whether religious or traditional, or based upon certain artistic rules of supposed importance.

To have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study; -- said of things. According as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety. Locke.

Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing. Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law. Hooker. As fast the correspondent passions rise. Thomson. I will be correspondent to command. Shak.

In a cosmographic manner; in accordance with cosmography.

A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll. Burrill.

Customary or established sequence of evants; re currence of events according to natural laws. By course of nature and of law. Davies. Day and night, Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course. Milton.

he nobility and gentry in a town. -- Court hand, the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. Shak. -- Court lands (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. -- Court marshal, one who acts as marshal for a court. -- Court party, a party attached…

A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. Blackstone.

ghts upon the crocodile and devours its insect parasites, even entering its open mouth (according to reliable writers) in pursuit of files, etc.; -- called also Nile bird. It is the trochilos of ancient writers. -- Crocodile tears, false or affected tears; hypocritical sorrow; -- derived from the fiction of old travel…

ooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.