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Constitute vs Constituent - What's the difference?

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Constituent is a related term of constitute.



As nouns the difference between constitute and constituent

is that constitute is an established law while constituent is a part, or component of a whole.

As a verb constitute

is to cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

As an adjective constituent is

being a part, or component of a whole.

constitute

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

(constitut)
  • To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority.
  • To make up; to compose; to form.
  • * Johnson
    • Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction.
  • To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
  • * William Wordsworth
    • Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine.

    Synonyms

    * establish, enact * make up, compose, form

    Related terms

    * constituent * constituency * constitution * constitutional * constitutionalization * constitutive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An established law.
    • (Webster 1913)

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    constituent

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • being a part, or component of a whole
  • * Dryden
    • Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man.
  • authorized to make a constitution
  • * Junius
    • A question of right arises between the constituent and representative body.

    Related terms

    * constitute * constituency * constitution * constitutional * constitutive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a part, or component of a whole
  • * Tyndall
    • We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water.
  • The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • Their first composure and origination require a higher and nobler constituent than chance.
  • A resident of a place represented by an elected official.
  • * Macaulay
    • To appeal from the representatives to the constituents .
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  • (legal) One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.
    • (Burrill)
  • (grammar) A functional element of a phrase or clause.
  • *
    • Thus, the postulation of a Noun Phrase'' constituent is justified on morphological grounds, since it is not obvious how we could describe the grammar of the genitive 's inflection in English without saying that it's a ''Noun Phrase inflection.

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