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An object of envious notice or feeling. This constitution in former days used to be the envy of the world. Macaulay.

Sameness in state or continued course; evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of temper or constitution.

Equal law, or a well-adjusted constitution of government. [R.] Mitford.

ity; occupation, in general; practice. exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature. Jefferson. O we will walk this world, Yoked in all exercise of noble end. Tennyson.

nciples of a free government, and the States are prohibited from passing such laws by the Constitution of the United States. Burrill. Kent.

Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law.

s in fashion. Locke. As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation. H. Spencer.

Consisting or pertaining to such a government; as, the Federal Constitution; a Federal officer.

An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.

different States; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the Federal Constitution. Barlow.

The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form or constitution. Burke.

Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.

Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; essential; pertaining to oe depending on the forms, so called of the human intellect. Of [the sounds represented by] letters, the material part is breath and voice; the fo…

A symbolic expression (by means of letters, figures, etc.) of the constituents or constitution of a compound.

The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person. Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. Shak. No frames could be strong enough to endure it. Prescott.

One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.

ernment, and vested in individuals; an imunity or exemption from ordinary jurisdiction; a constitutional or statutory right or privilege, esp. the right to vote. Election by universal suffrage, as modified by the Constitution, is the one crowning franchise of the American people. W. H. Seward.

tc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service.

of some project. Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions. Locke.

h treats of the materials of the earth's structure, and its general exterior and interior constitution.