CONSTITUTE

Definitions

1. 1. To cause to stand; to establish; to enact. Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority. Jer. Taylor.
2. 2. To make up; to compose; to form. Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction. Johnson.
3. 3. To appoint, depute, or elect to an offie; to make and empower. Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine. Wordsworth. Constituted authorities, the officers of government, collectively, as of a nation, city, town, etc. Bartlett.