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CONSTITUTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established
Example:
the established Church
Synonyms:
constituted; established
Classified under:
Similar:
deep-rooted; deep-seated; implanted; ingrained; planted ((used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held)
entrenched (established firmly and securely)
grooved; well-grooved (established as if settled into a groove or rut)
legitimate (in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles)
official ((of a church) given official status as a national or state institution)
recognised; recognized (provided with a secure reputation)
self-constituted; self-established (constituted by or established by itself)
old-line; oldline (long-established)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb constitute
Context examples:
Her brother was burrowing for frozen pay-streaks in that far country, and so she constituted herself an authority on the subject.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Also, dogs being so constituted in their mental ways, the sight of him running away gave desire to run after him and a feeling that he ran away from them.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Also, so small was the little corner that constituted the kitchen, he was able, sitting down, to reach anything he needed.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Between them they constituted the majority of this particular group.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
This had constituted the clay of him, and it had not been kindly moulded by the world.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The old wheel-hub, fixed on the end of the upright pole, constituted the plunger.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
She sank her fangs into her mate's shoulder in reproof; and he, frightened, unaware of what constituted this new onslaught, struck back ferociously and in still greater fright, ripping down the side of the she-wolf's muzzle.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It constituted their whole lexicon of ideas.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The fabric of her life, of all that constituted her, quivered and grew tremulous.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And now, in her, he conceived purity to be the superlative of goodness and of cleanness, the sum of which constituted eternal life.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
