constituentadj.n.

/kənˈstɪtjuːənt/

Forms: Also 1600s -ant.

Etymology: < Latin constituent-em, present participle of constituĕre to constitute v.: the corresponding French constituant occurs both as adjective and noun in Cotgrave 1611, and may have been the immediate model of the English word, which in early use was sometimes so spelt: compare also sense A. 4.

A. adj.

†1. That constitutes or makes a thing what it is; formative, essential; characteristic, distinctive. Obsolete (or not distinguished from 2.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [adjective] > essential or constituting the essence

formalc1386

substantial1422

essential1546

radical1562

constitutive1610

essentifical1656

constituent1659

vital1659

qualifying1704

constitutional1750

staminal1798

substantive1858

1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God vi. 43 Like Philosophers, who make Reason the Essentiall Constituent Form of man.

1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) xxv. 270 All the constituent and necessary Parts of a Sacrament are found in Baptism.

1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iii. §9. 91 There is another notion current..that Perfection is the constituent cause of beauty.

1833 W. Whewell Bridgewater Treat. (1852) 74 To each degree of pressure in steam there is a constituent temperature corresponding.

1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. iii. 16 Every lawful Parliament consists of three constituent parts,—the King, the Lords, and the Commons.

2. That jointly constitute, compose, or make up. Of a single element: That goes to compose or make up; component.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [adjective] > of or relating to components > forming (a) component part(s)

partiala1398

integral1551

integrant1637

constitutivea1640

elemental1639

constituting1641

integrating1654

constituent1660

component1664

compounding1682

contained1696

organical1770

inbuilt1961

1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. iii. Rule 11 §1 The main constituent parts of the evangelical [laws].

1676 W. Hubbard Happiness of People 2 Distribution..into its integral parts or constituent Members.

1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica (ed. 2) 314 One of the constituent members of the court of syndicats.

1793 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 75. 600 All the ideas that are constituent of real excellence.

1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxi. 398 The constituent parts, of water.

a1871 G. Grote Fragm. Ethical Subj. (1876) ii. 33 As a constituent member of Society.

1882 A. Macfarlane Consanguinity 2 The idea must be resolved into its constituent ideas.

3. That constitutes, appoints, or elects a representative. Cf. B. 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > appointment to office > [adjective] > having power of appointing

constitutive1682

constituent1769

society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [adjective]

voting1653

pollable1693

votable1754

constituent1769

enfranchised1884

1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxv. 50 A question of right arises between the constituent and the representative body.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 478 In some of the small western corporations, the constituent bodies were in great part composed of captains and lieutenants of the guards.

1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein III. 406 The Prussian Estates..the constituent bodies were not districts or fractions of the population, but corporations.

4. Having the power to frame or alter a (political) constitution, as in constituent assembly, constituent power, phrases which originated in French in 1789.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > [adjective] > having power to frame

constituting1792

constituent1801

1801 W. Dupré Lexicographia-neologica Gallica 62 Decreed by the constituent assembly, on the 12th of July, 1790.

1833 A. Alison Hist. Europe during French Revol. I. v. 339 Mirabeau represented the Constituent..Vergniaud..the Legislative Body.

1873 Daily News 5 Mar. 5/5 He did not deny the constituent power of the Assembly, but..if they were constituent why did they not proceed to ‘constitute’?

1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 406 Reform bills we have seen without number; a constituent assembly we have never seen.

B. n.

1. One who constitutes or appoints another as his agent, proxy, or representative.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > delegated authority > investing with delegated authority > [noun] > one who gives a commission > one who appoints an agent or deputy

constituent1622

principal1625

deputera1641

deputator1669

1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 107 The partie who..is the Procurator, is taken in law as absolute as the Constituant, and many sundrie proceedings may be vsed against him accordingly.

1713 London Gaz. No. 5148/2 Both the Constituent and Proxy being Qualified according to Law.

1798 A. J. Dallas Rep. Cases U.S. & Pennsylvania 2 67 The factor..is..answerable personally to his constituent.

1830 R. Chambers Life James I I. i. 39 Elizabeth, from the influence she possessed over the Protestant party in Scotland, might almost be called his constituent.

1891 Mod. Commercial usage ; (letter of consignee) My constituent's instructions are not to sell for less than, etc.

2. spec.

a. One of those who elect another to a public office, esp. as their representative in a legislative assembly; an elector; more widely, any inhabitant of the district or place so represented.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > one who has right to vote

elector1467

votera1600

constituent1714

balloter1733

vote1737

franchiser1843

floater1896

1714 G. Lockhart Mem. Affairs Scotl. 220 A hot Debate, whether or not the Parliament without Particular Instructions from their Constituents, could alter the Constitution of the Government.

1747 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 414/1 If the deputies..fail in their duty, they are only accountable to their constituents.

1859 J. Bright Speeches 4 24 members whose constituents are upwards of 200,000 in number.

†b. The body of electors belonging to a particular place; now constituency n. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > constituency

constituent1772

constituency1831

polling district1831

electorate1866

1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra I. Ded. p. vii Influence of the constituent over the conduct of the representative.

a1797 E. Burke Speech Shortening Parl. in Wks. (1812) X. 80 If every corruptible Representative were to find an enlightened and incorruptible Constituent.

†3. One who constitutes or frames. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > creator

forgerc1380

authora1382

feigner1382

formerc1386

founderc1390

makera1450

plasmatoura1500

constitutor1531

framer1534

creator1548

fashioner1548

opificer1548

essentiator1561

creatress1590

effecter1591

compactor1593

moulder1594

creatrix1595

mouldress1599

effector1635

composer1644

plastic1644

opifex1649

fabricator1650

formator1656

efformer1662

essentializer1669

constituenta1676

crafter1907

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. ii. 52 A Creature..whose first composure and origination requires a higher and nobler Constituent than Chance.

a. A constituent element or part.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > constituent part or component

limbc1000

membera1382

elementc1386

parcelc1395

ingredientc1460

partc1530

ingredience1577

principle1594

simple1603

composer1610

partiment1641

component1644

constitutive1647

composite1657

integral1659

ingredient1674

aggregant1749

constituent1757

congredient1767

factor1816

integrant1825

inclusion1845

1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iii. §14. 98 Let it want ever so many of the other constituents, if it wants not this.

1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory iii. 465 The constituents of the neutral carbonate..are, in 100 parts, 39 of acid, 38 of alkali, and 23 of water.

1850 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. (ed. 2) I. 76 What is the special and necessary constituent of royalty.

1881 W. S. Burnside & A. W. Panton Theory of Equations xi. 232 The individual letters a, b, c..a₂..etc. of which a determinant is composed are called constituents, and by some writers elements.

†b. A constituent member. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > [noun] > member > other types of member

fellowc1405

entrant1560

redemptionary1583

honorary1675

confrere1753

constituent1755

corresponding member1772

new (also fresh) blood1782

life member1813

young blood1830

old guard1841

cardholder1869

hardcore1922

fully paid-up member1960

teleocrat1971

1755 T. Amory Mem. Ladies 413 Mrs. Harcourt and the eleven constituents she chose on the first founding her society.

5. Linguistics. (See quots.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun]

constituent1933

taxeme1933

syntaxeme1947

tagma1949

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [adjective]

tactic1933

taxemic1950

constituent1953

syntaxemic1968

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. x. 160 The common part of any (two or more) complex forms is a linguistic form; it is a constituent (or component) of these complex forms.

1953 C. E. Bazell Ling. Form 57 Taxemic distinctions are frequently correlated with distinctions of constituent-analysis.

1953 C. E. Bazell Ling. Form 76 In sentence-analysis..the various layers which, from the standpoint of the system, are regarded as bases, are treated as constituent-layers of the base.

1956 J. Whatmough Lang. 260 Constituent, the common part of any two or more complex forms or constructs, e.g. un/gentlemanly: gentleman/ly: gentle/man.

1962 N. Chomsky Syntactic Struct. iv. 29 The form of grammar associated with the theory of linguistic structure based upon constituent analysis.

1962 J. Sledd in F. W. Householder & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 146 At the end of the constituent-structure grammar [etc.].

1964 E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. iv. 75 In such rules the ‘embedding’ sentence is called the matrix sentence, the embedded one the constituent sentence (or string).

1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. 300 The first set of rules, known as ‘constituent-structure’ rules, produces structures and some formal items.

1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax ii. 67 An unordered set of rewriting rules..is called a constituent structure grammar (or phrase structure grammar).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	constituent
释义	constituentadj.n. /kənˈstɪtjuːənt/ Forms: Also 1600s -ant. Etymology: < Latin constituent-em, present participle of constituĕre to constitute v.: the corresponding French constituant occurs both as adjective and noun in Cotgrave 1611, and may have been the immediate model of the English word, which in early use was sometimes so spelt: compare also sense A. 4. A. adj. †1. That constitutes or makes a thing what it is; formative, essential; characteristic, distinctive. Obsolete (or not distinguished from 2.) ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [adjective] > essential or constituting the essence formalc1386 substantial1422 essential1546 radical1562 constitutive1610 essentifical1656 constituent1659 vital1659 qualifying1704 constitutional1750 staminal1798 substantive1858 1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God vi. 43 Like Philosophers, who make Reason the Essentiall Constituent Form of man. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) xxv. 270 All the constituent and necessary Parts of a Sacrament are found in Baptism. 1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iii. §9. 91 There is another notion current..that Perfection is the constituent cause of beauty. 1833 W. Whewell Bridgewater Treat. (1852) 74 To each degree of pressure in steam there is a constituent temperature corresponding. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. iii. 16 Every lawful Parliament consists of three constituent parts,—the King, the Lords, and the Commons. 2. That jointly constitute, compose, or make up. Of a single element: That goes to compose or make up; component. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [adjective] > of or relating to components > forming (a) component part(s) partiala1398 integral1551 integrant1637 constitutivea1640 elemental1639 constituting1641 integrating1654 constituent1660 component1664 compounding1682 contained1696 organical1770 inbuilt1961 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. iii. Rule 11 §1 The main constituent parts of the evangelical [laws]. 1676 W. Hubbard Happiness of People 2 Distribution..into its integral parts or constituent Members. 1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica (ed. 2) 314 One of the constituent members of the court of syndicats. 1793 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 75. 600 All the ideas that are constituent of real excellence. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxi. 398 The constituent parts, of water. a1871 G. Grote Fragm. Ethical Subj. (1876) ii. 33 As a constituent member of Society. 1882 A. Macfarlane Consanguinity 2 The idea must be resolved into its constituent ideas. 3. That constitutes, appoints, or elects a representative. Cf. B. 1. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > [adjective] > having power of appointing constitutive1682 constituent1769 society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [adjective] voting1653 pollable1693 votable1754 constituent1769 enfranchised1884 1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxv. 50 A question of right arises between the constituent and the representative body. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 478 In some of the small western corporations, the constituent bodies were in great part composed of captains and lieutenants of the guards. 1878 J. R. Seeley Life & Times Stein III. 406 The Prussian Estates..the constituent bodies were not districts or fractions of the population, but corporations. 4. Having the power to frame or alter a (political) constitution, as in constituent assembly, constituent power, phrases which originated in French in 1789. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > [adjective] > having power to frame constituting1792 constituent1801 1801 W. Dupré Lexicographia-neologica Gallica 62 Decreed by the constituent assembly, on the 12th of July, 1790. 1833 A. Alison Hist. Europe during French Revol. I. v. 339 Mirabeau represented the Constituent..Vergniaud..the Legislative Body. 1873 Daily News 5 Mar. 5/5 He did not deny the constituent power of the Assembly, but..if they were constituent why did they not proceed to ‘constitute’? 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 406 Reform bills we have seen without number; a constituent assembly we have never seen. B. n. 1. One who constitutes or appoints another as his agent, proxy, or representative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > investing with delegated authority > [noun] > one who gives a commission > one who appoints an agent or deputy constituent1622 principal1625 deputera1641 deputator1669 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 107 The partie who..is the Procurator, is taken in law as absolute as the Constituant, and many sundrie proceedings may be vsed against him accordingly. 1713 London Gaz. No. 5148/2 Both the Constituent and Proxy being Qualified according to Law. 1798 A. J. Dallas Rep. Cases U.S. & Pennsylvania 2 67 The factor..is..answerable personally to his constituent. 1830 R. Chambers Life James I I. i. 39 Elizabeth, from the influence she possessed over the Protestant party in Scotland, might almost be called his constituent. 1891 Mod. Commercial usage ; (letter of consignee) My constituent's instructions are not to sell for less than, etc. 2. spec. a. One of those who elect another to a public office, esp. as their representative in a legislative assembly; an elector; more widely, any inhabitant of the district or place so represented. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > one who has right to vote elector1467 votera1600 constituent1714 balloter1733 vote1737 franchiser1843 floater1896 1714 G. Lockhart Mem. Affairs Scotl. 220 A hot Debate, whether or not the Parliament without Particular Instructions from their Constituents, could alter the Constitution of the Government. 1747 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 414/1 If the deputies..fail in their duty, they are only accountable to their constituents. 1859 J. Bright Speeches 4 24 members whose constituents are upwards of 200,000 in number. †b. The body of electors belonging to a particular place; now constituency n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > constituency constituent1772 constituency1831 polling district1831 electorate1866 1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra I. Ded. p. vii Influence of the constituent over the conduct of the representative. a1797 E. Burke Speech Shortening Parl. in Wks. (1812) X. 80 If every corruptible Representative were to find an enlightened and incorruptible Constituent. †3. One who constitutes or frames. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > creator forgerc1380 authora1382 feigner1382 formerc1386 founderc1390 makera1450 plasmatoura1500 constitutor1531 framer1534 creator1548 fashioner1548 opificer1548 essentiator1561 creatress1590 effecter1591 compactor1593 moulder1594 creatrix1595 mouldress1599 effector1635 composer1644 plastic1644 opifex1649 fabricator1650 formator1656 efformer1662 essentializer1669 constituenta1676 crafter1907 a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. ii. 52 A Creature..whose first composure and origination requires a higher and nobler Constituent than Chance. 4. a. A constituent element or part. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > constituent part or component limbc1000 membera1382 elementc1386 parcelc1395 ingredientc1460 partc1530 ingredience1577 principle1594 simple1603 composer1610 partiment1641 component1644 constitutive1647 composite1657 integral1659 ingredient1674 aggregant1749 constituent1757 congredient1767 factor1816 integrant1825 inclusion1845 1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iii. §14. 98 Let it want ever so many of the other constituents, if it wants not this. 1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory iii. 465 The constituents of the neutral carbonate..are, in 100 parts, 39 of acid, 38 of alkali, and 23 of water. 1850 F. D. Maurice Moral & Metaphysical Philos. (ed. 2) I. 76 What is the special and necessary constituent of royalty. 1881 W. S. Burnside & A. W. Panton Theory of Equations xi. 232 The individual letters a, b, c..a₂..etc. of which a determinant is composed are called constituents, and by some writers elements. †b. A constituent member. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > [noun] > member > other types of member fellowc1405 entrant1560 redemptionary1583 honorary1675 confrere1753 constituent1755 corresponding member1772 new (also fresh) blood1782 life member1813 young blood1830 old guard1841 cardholder1869 hardcore1922 fully paid-up member1960 teleocrat1971 1755 T. Amory Mem. Ladies 413 Mrs. Harcourt and the eleven constituents she chose on the first founding her society. 5. Linguistics. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] constituent1933 taxeme1933 syntaxeme1947 tagma1949 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [adjective] tactic1933 taxemic1950 constituent1953 syntaxemic1968 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. x. 160 The common part of any (two or more) complex forms is a linguistic form; it is a constituent (or component) of these complex forms. 1953 C. E. Bazell Ling. Form 57 Taxemic distinctions are frequently correlated with distinctions of constituent-analysis. 1953 C. E. Bazell Ling. Form 76 In sentence-analysis..the various layers which, from the standpoint of the system, are regarded as bases, are treated as constituent-layers of the base. 1956 J. Whatmough Lang. 260 Constituent, the common part of any two or more complex forms or constructs, e.g. un/gentlemanly: gentleman/ly: gentle/man. 1962 N. Chomsky Syntactic Struct. iv. 29 The form of grammar associated with the theory of linguistic structure based upon constituent analysis. 1962 J. Sledd in F. W. Householder & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 146 At the end of the constituent-structure grammar [etc.]. 1964 E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. iv. 75 In such rules the ‘embedding’ sentence is called the matrix sentence, the embedded one the constituent sentence (or string). 1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. 300 The first set of rules, known as ‘constituent-structure’ rules, produces structures and some formal items. 1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax ii. 67 An unordered set of rewriting rules..is called a constituent structure grammar (or phrase structure grammar). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1622
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