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serve, as an example for imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior.

nduced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant. "Her sick and morbid heart." Hawthorne.

Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or dispos…

ct from others; native character; inherent or essential qualities or attributes; peculiar constitution or quality of being. Thou, therefore, whom thou only canst redeem, Their nature also to thy nature join, And be thyself man among men on earth. Milton.

Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor. he led me on to mightiest deeds, Above the nerve of mortal arm. Milton.

ociated with a sensation of terror, occurring in children, esp. those of unstable nervous constitution.

A new or supplemental constitution. See the Note under Novel, a.

, by its sovereign act or decree, an enactment of the general government which it deems unconstitutional.

on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. Constitution of the U. S.

pact; a covenant. Bacon. The engagement and pact of society whish goes by the name of the constitution. Burke.

An erythematous affection of the skin, with severe constitutional and nervous symptoms, endemic in Northern Italy.

The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from conception. Sir W. Hamilton. Matter hath no life nor perce…

The scientific description of rocks; that department of science which investigates the constitution of rocks; petrology.

Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution. Harvey.

The philosophy of human life, or the doctrine of the constitution and diseases of man, and their remedies.

The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person. With his white hair and splendid physique. Mrs. Stowe.

d of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition. God's plans like lines pure and white unfold. M. R. Smith.

male suffrage; especially, in France, a popular vote, as first sanctioned by the National Constitution of

eving a full habit of body; characterized by plethora or excess of blood; as, a plethoric constitution; -- used also metaphorically. "Plethoric phrases." Sydney Smith. "Plethoric fullness of thought." De Quincey.

ed States of a bill unsigned so that it does not become a law, in virtue of the following constitutional provision (Const. Art. I., sec. 7, cl. 2): "If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as…