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constitutor|ˈkɒnstɪˌtjuːtə(r)|
Also 6–7 -our, 7–9 -er.
[a. L. constitūtor, agent-n. from constituĕre to constitute. Cf. F. constituteur (16th c. in Littré).]
One who or that which constitutes, makes, frames, establishes, etc.: see the verb.
1531Elyot Gov. iii. vii, Justyce..the chiefe constitutour and maker of a publike weale. 1601Cornwallyes Ess. ii. li. (1631) 327 Constitutors of Societies. 1697J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 261 Having one and the Self-same Constituter. 1747Hooson Miner's Dict. N j b, The Constituters of this Oblique and irregular mineral Diagram. 1759Goldsm. Bee No. 7 Elocution is only an assistant, but not a constituter, of eloquence. 1856J. R. Ballantyne Sánkhya Aphorisms 65 The vital air is not the constituter of the Body.
b. A framer of a (political) constitution.
1658–9Burton's Diary (1828) III. 473 You are the constitutors. It is yet in your power..to stay settling the constitution. 1796W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXI. 540 The definition of the French constitutors has restricted..the meaning of the word liberty. |