CONSTITUTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does constituted mean? 

• CONSTITUTED (adjective)
  The adjective CONSTITUTED has 1 sense:

1. brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established

  Familiarity information: CONSTITUTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONSTITUTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established

Synonyms:

constituted; established

Context example:

the established Church

Similar:

deep-rooted; deep-seated; implanted; ingrained; planted ((used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held)

entrenched (established firmly and securely)

grooved; well-grooved (established as if settled into a groove or rut)

legitimate (in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles)

official ((of a church) given official status as a national or state institution)

recognised; recognized (provided with a secure reputation)

self-constituted; self-established (constituted by or established by itself)

old-line; oldline (long-established)

 Context examples 

Studying its properties may allow us to understand better how ordinary matter, the protons and neutrons from which we're all made, is constituted.

(Physicists discover long-sought 'pentaquark' particle, NSF)

The Ring of Bells and his horror stories constituted one collection; the other collection was composed of Adventure, The Pot, The Wine of Life, The Whirlpool, The Jostling Street, and four other stories.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Those were the words; in them lay the tormenting ideas which Emma could not get rid of, and which constituted the real misery of the business to her.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

A rabbit-skin sleeping-robe, a muzzle- loading rifle, and a few pounds of sun-dried salmon constituted his outfit.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

They had constituted a kind apart, and here, abruptly, he had discovered many more creatures apparently of his own kind.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The code of my group was stronger than I. The fact that he had hands, feet, and a body shaped somewhat like mine, constituted a claim which I could not ignore.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A group delegated to consider some matter; a self-constituted organization to promote something.

(Committee, NCI Thesaurus)

A specially constituted independent review body comprised of medical, scientific and non-scientific members established and designated by an entity to ensure the protection of the rights, safety and well-being of human subjects recruited to participate in biomedical or behavioral research according to the requirements outlined in Title 38, part 16 (same as Title 45, part 46 and Title 21, part 56) of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations.

(Institutional Review Board, NCI Thesaurus)

DNA was extracted from walrus sites and archaeological excavations of walrus samples and compared with data from contemporary walruses, documenting that the Icelandic walrus constituted a genetically unique lineage, distinct from all other historic and contemporary walrus populations in the North Atlantic.

(Extinction of Icelandic walrus coincides with Norse settlement, National Science Foundation)

If Ruth could see me now, was his thought, while he wondered as to what constituted the real dirt.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)