单词 | constitutionalize |
释义 | constitutionalizev. 1. transitive. [ < constitutional adj.] To make constitutional. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by the people or their delegates > make democratic [verb (transitive)] > make constitutional constitutionalize1831 1831 Fraser's Mag. 3 443 Having endeavoured to constitutionalize Spain. 1859 D. Masson Brit. Novelists iv. 254 A wave of democratic revolution..constitutionalizing for a moment absolute governments. 2. intransitive. [ < constitutional n.] To take a ‘constitutional’. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > for exercise or recreation walka1375 to take a walk1581 to take one's walk(s)1581 to stretch one's legs1584 purmeinea1614 fetch, rarely make a walk1694 to streek one's shanks, wame1788 constitutionalize1852 1852 C. A. Bristed Five Years Eng. University (ed. 2) 19 The most usual mode of exercise is walking—constitutionalizing is the Cantab for it. 1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue vi. 258 A walk for the sake of bodily exercise having been called a ‘constitutional’, the verb constitutionalize was soon formed. Derivatives constiˈtutionalizing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > walking for exercise or recreation walking outc1405 deambulation1531 constitutionalizing1846 power walking1982 society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by the people or their delegates > [noun] > constitutional system > making constitutional constitutionalizing1846 society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > government by the people or their delegates > [adjective] > constitutional > making constitutional constitutionalizing1846 1846 J. B. Mozley Ess. (1878) 302 He could do nothing with his Constitutionalising Parliaments but dissolve them. 1848 Fraser's Mag. 37 484 The constitutionalising of Rhenish Germany. 1888 W. Knight Principal Shairp 41 The daily routine of constitutionalising. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1831 |
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