constitutional
cons·ti·tu·tional
adjective
sanctioned by or consistent with or operating under a constitution
- “the constitutional right of free speech”
- “constitutional government”
- “constitutional guarantees”
existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
- “the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity”
- “a constitutional inability to tell the truth”
constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)
noun
Origin
PIE word *ḱóm From constitution + -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Constitution is derived from Middle English constitucioun, constitucion (“edict, law, ordinance, regulation, rule, statute; body of laws or rules, or customs; body of fundamental principles; principle or rule (of science); creation”) from Old French constitucion (modern French constitution), a learned borrowing from Latin cōnstitūtiō, cōnstitūtiōnem (“character, constitution, disposition, nature; definition; point in dispute; order, regulation; arrangement, system”), from cōnstituō (“to establish, set up; to confirm; to decide, resolve”) (from con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) + statuō (“to set up, station; to establish; to determine, fix”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”))) + -tiō (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or the results of actions), -tiōnem (accusative singular of -tiō).
Phrases
- constitutional amendment
- constitutional carry
- constitutional court
- constitutional crisis
- constitutional gold
- constitutional law
- constitutional monarchist
- constitutional monarchy
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