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

One who, or that which, constructs or frames.

The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.

One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, as the Constitutions of the United States; as, a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist.

Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. The constructive fingers of Watts. Emerson.

In a constructive manner; by construction or inference. A neutral must have notice of a blockade, either actually by a formal information, or constructively by notice to his government. Kent.

Tendency or ability to form or construct.

A constructer.

That which is constructed or formed; an edifice; a fabric. [Obs.]

To construct wrongly; to construe or interpret erroneously.

Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation. Bp. Stillingfleet.

To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew. Regiments had been dissolved and reconstructed. Macaulay.

The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.

Reconstructing; tending to reconstruct; as, a reconstructive policy.

The ablative case. ablative absolute, a construction in Latin, in which a noun in the ablative case has a participle (either expressed or implied), agreeing with it in gender, number, and case, both words forming a clause by themselves and being unconnected, grammatically, with the rest of the sentence; as, Tarquinio r…

To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted. Both Houses declared that they could admit of no treaty with the king. Hume.

The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage. The law was very gentle in the construction of the disability of alienism. Kent.

In the Christian church, a construction of stone, wood, or other material for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist; the communion table.

anings, not from the double sense of any of the words, but from its admitting of a double construction; e. g., "The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose." Whately.