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Facilitate vs Constitute - What's the difference?

facilitate | constitute |

As verbs the difference between facilitate and constitute

is that facilitate is to make easy or easier while constitute is to cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

As a noun constitute is

(obsolete) an established law.

facilitate

English

Verb

(facilitat)
  • To make easy or easier.
  • To help bring about
  • To preside over (a meeting, a seminar)
  • 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

    Noun

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