Constitute vs Formulate - What's the difference?
constitute | formulate |
To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
* Jeremy Taylor
To make up; to compose; to form.
* Johnson
To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
* William Wordsworth
To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
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As verbs the difference between constitute and formulate
is that constitute is to cause to stand; to establish; to enact while formulate is to reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.As a noun constitute
is (obsolete) an established law.constitute
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(constitut)- Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority.
- Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction.
- Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine.
Synonyms
* establish, enact * make up, compose, formExternal links
* * ----formulate
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
- Another source of evidence supporting the conclusion that children learn language by formulating a set of rules comes from the errors'' that they produce. A case in point are overgeneralized past tense forms like ''comed'', ''goed'', ''seed'', ''buyed'', ''bringed , etc. frequently used by young children. [...]