constitute

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Infinitive
to constitute

Third person singular
constitutes

Simple past
constituted

Past participle
constituted

Present participle
constituting

to constitute (third-person singular simple present constitutes, present participle constituting, simple past and past participle constituted)

  1. To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
    Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority.-- Jeremy 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 office; to make and empower.
    Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine.-- William Wordsworth.

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