Word Meanings - CONSTITUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

constitute; con- + statuere to place, set, fr. status station, fr. 1. To cause to stand; to establish; to enact. Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority. Jer. Taylor. 2. To make up; to compose; to form. Truth and reason constitute that

Additional info about word: CONSTITUTE

constitute; con- + statuere to place, set, fr. status station, fr. 1. To cause to stand; to establish; to enact. Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority. Jer. Taylor. 2. To make up; to compose; to form. Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction. Johnson. 3. To appoint, depute, or elect to an offie; to make and empower. Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine. Wordsworth. Constituted authorities, the officers of government, collectively, as of a nation, city, town, etc. Bartlett.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONSTITUTE)

• Compose
• Construct
• compile
• soothe
• allay
• calm
• put together
• constitute
• draw up
• frame
• form
• pacify
• mitigate
• settle
• adjust
• write
• Create
• Form
• produce
• make
• compose
• beget
• engender
• generate
• fashion
• originate
• educe
• invent
• imagine
• cause
• Depute
• Appoint
• commission
• charge
• entrust
• delegate
• authorize
• accredit
• Shape
• mould
• arrange
• construct
• contrive
• conceive
• create
• devise
• Organize
• dispose

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONSTITUTE)

• Pervert
• distort
• misadapt
• misdelineate
• derange
• discompose
• misconstrue
• misproduce
• caricature

Related words: (words related to CONSTITUTE)

• INVENTIVE
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• CONSTRUCT
  together, to construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See 1. To put together the constituent parts of in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice. 2. To devise; to invent; to set in order;
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• FASHION-MONGERING
  Behaving like a fashion-monger. Shak.
• FASHIONED
  Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.
• FASHION-MONGER
  One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.
• INVENTRESS
  A woman who invents. Dryden.
• ADJUSTIVE
  Tending to adjust.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• ACCREDIT
  1. To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction. His censure will . . . accredit his praises. Cowper. These reasons . . . which accredit and fortify mine opinion. Shelton. 2. To send with letters credential, as an
• ACCREDITATION
  The act of accrediting; as, letters of accreditation.
• DISPOSE
  Etym: 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in
• DISPOSEDNESS
  The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity.
• UNCREATED
  1. Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl. 2. Not yet created; as, misery uncreated. Milton. 3. Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• MOLDINESS; MOULDINESS
  The state of being moldy.
• MOLDER; MOULDER
  One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically , one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• HOOD MOLDING; HOOD MOULDING
  A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• PROCREATE
  To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.
• MOLD; MOULD
  mulm, OHG. molt, molta, Icel. mold, Dan. muld, Sw. mull, Goth. mulda, prevalent spelling is, perhaps, mould; but as the u has not been inserted in the other words of this class, as bold, gold, old, cold, etc., it seems desirable to complete the
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
• RE-CREATE
  To create or form anew. On opening the campaign of 1776, instead of reënforcing, it was necessary to re-create, the army. Marshall.