constitutiveadj.n.

/ˈkɒnstɪˌtjuːtɪv/

Etymology: < Latin type *constitūtīvus (perhaps in medieval Latin), < constitūt- participial stem: see constitute adj. and n. and -ive suffix. French constitutif, -ive is in Cotgrave 1611.

A. adj.

a. Having the power of constituting, establishing, or giving formal, definite, or organized existence to something; constructive.In the Kantian Philosophy, constitutive ideas or principles of reason are opposed to regulative (regulative adj. 1b).

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > creating, fashioning, shaping, or forming > having the ability or power to create or creative

formative1490

factive1535

constitutive1592

plastical1615

forming1644

plastic1646

elaborative1845

1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. i. § 46 An Instrument constitutive is such an Instrument under the proper hand of the party as testifieth and describeth some contract of some debt or dutie to be paied, or some fact to be done or performed as an obligation.

1670 R. Baxter Cure Church-div. 277 The Churches Constitutive or Governing Head.

1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. App. E p. xlvii Whether Ideas are regulative only, according to Aristotle and Kant; or likewise Constitutive, and one with the power and Life of Nature.

1856 J. M. D. Meiklejohn tr. I. Kant Crit. Pure Reason 317.

1867 J. H. Stirling tr. A. Schwegler Handbk. Hist. Philos. xxxviii. 231 [Kant] These ideas, if not constitutive principles to extend our knowledge beyond the bounds of experience, are regulative principles to arrange experience.

1870 J. B. Brown First Princ. Eccl. Truth 256 The great constitutive ideas which have moulded powerfully the institutions of society.

1879 R. Adamson Philos. Kant 107 The principle [of the intelligibility of Nature]..under which we subsume real experience is not constitutive but regulative, a mere maxim of reason, and subjective.

b. Having the power of appointing to an office.

ΘΚΠ

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

constitutive1682

constituent1769

1682 Modest Enq. Election Sheriffs London 37 The Concurrence, Vote and constitutive Consent of a competent number of Free-men.

2. That makes a thing what it is; forming an essential part or element; essential.

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

1610 Bp. J. Hall Common Apol. against Brownists 10 You call for a double separation,—a first separation in the gathering of the Church..But of this constitutiue separation anone.

1654 O. Cromwell Speech 12 Sept. (Carlyle) Government by a single person and a Parliament is a Fundamental; it is the esse; it is Constitutive.

a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Eternal & Immutable Morality (1731) iv. vi. 284 The Constitutive Essences of all Individual Created Things.

1853 R. C. Trench On Lessons in Proverbs 16 Its constitutive element..is not the utterance on the part of the one, but the acceptance on the part of the many.

3. That makes up or goes to make up; forming a part or element; constituent, 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

a1640 T. Jackson Wks. (1673) II. 637 All the learning which he hath besides..is no constitutive part of the faculty which he professeth.

1670 E. Maynwaring Vita Sana & Longa (new ed.) i. 13 Subject to corruption and dissolution, through the fragility of constitutive parts.

a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) ii. vi. 143 The constitutive parts of the drama are six.

1861 in W. Thomson Aids to Faith i. 5 (note) Constitutive elements of the revelation itself.

4. With of: That constitutes, makes, forms, establishes, or determines.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > creating, fashioning, shaping, or forming > constitutive of

constitutive1659

1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 366 That may be essential to a Parliament that is not constitutive of a Parliament.

1684 2 Steps of Nonconf. Minister 11 Constitutive of duty.

1858 Nat. Rev. Oct. 499 Of the three conceivable functions constitutive of a clerical order,—the Priestly, the Rabbinical, and the Prophetic,—the first is with us extinct.

†5. Of a constituted character. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 26 My judgment concurs wholly with your vote for two Houses. The question now is, what that House shall be, whether constitutive or restitutive.

6. constitutive equation n. (see quot. 1961).

ΚΠ

1955 W. Noll in Jrnl. Rational Mech. & Anal. 4 17 The equations..are not sufficient to determine the motions of continuous media. We must have in addition certain constitutive equations defining the particular ideal material which we wish to study. These equations will be functional relations..between the stress..the density..and the motion.

1960 J. L. Ericksen in Archive for Rational Mech. & Anal. IV. 233 As a general principle to be used in constructing constitutive equations, Truesdell has proposed that the stress and heat flux should be assumed to depend on the same variables.

1961 W. Prager Introd. Mech. Continua iv. 88 The equations of continuity and motion do not contain any information regarding the mechanical properties of the continuum under consideration because they hold for any continuum. These properties are specified by the constitutive equation; this is a tensor equation, which establishes a relation between statical and kinematical tensors, for instance the stress or the stress rate..and the rate of deformation or the strain.

7. Biochemistry. Of, pertaining to, or being an enzyme or enzyme system that is continuously produced in an organism rather than depending on the presence of an inducer. Opposed to inducible adj. 1c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [adjective] > of nucleic acid > of enzymes

constitutive1932

Michaelis–Menten1934

inducible1953

angiotensinase1958

1932 Biochem. Jrnl. 26 1859 Karström..concluded that bacterial enzymes may be classified as either constitutive or adaptive. The former are invariably present in the bacteria; the presence of the latter depends on the presence..of the substrate upon which they act.

1953 Nature 12 Dec. 1096/1 It is..possible to obtain mutants in which synthesis of a particular enzyme is wholly constitutive.

1964 G. H. Haggis et al. Introd. Molecular Biol. x. 277 Mutants in either the regulator gene or the operator segment are detected as ‘constitutive mutants’; they synthesize both enzymes at maximum rate irrespective of the presence or absence of inducer.

1968 A. White et al. Princ. Biochem. (ed. 4) 683 Constitutive enzymes remain at the same level regardless of the amount of potential inducer added to the cell culture.

1981 Sci. Amer. June 69/2 Many Gram-negative bacteria also produce a beta-lactamase, and in these organisms the enzyme is often constitutive.

†B. n.

A constitutive part or element, a constituent. Obsolete. rare.

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

1647 H. Hammond Of Power of Keyes iv. 73 I much wonder why..in the number of the constitutives of externall Communion, publick prayer is not mentioned.

1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 51 According to his compleat Essential Form or Constitutive.

Derivatives

ˌconstituˈtivity n. Biochemistry the property of being constitutive (sense A. 7 above).

ΚΠ

1953 M. Cohn et al. in Nature 12 Dec. 1096/2 Thus ‘constitutivity’ and ‘inducibility’ are properties of enzyme-forming systems, not of enzymes per se, and can be used as significant expressions only in a biological frame of reference, not in a chemical one. It should be stressed that the notions of constitutivity and inducibility are relative, not absolute; in any given biological system, a certain fraction of a particular enzyme-forming capacity may be constitutive, the remaining fraction inducible. For the sake of convenience, one may wish to refer to ‘an induced enzyme’ or to ‘a constitutive enzyme’; but it should always be kept in mind that these are shorthand expressions for ‘an enzyme the formation of which is largely or entirely inducible (or constitutive) in the particular organism concerned’.

1968 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 166 589 (heading) Constitutivity of thymidine phosphorylase in deoxyriboaldolase negative strains: dependence on thymine requirement and concentration.

1975 Nature 6 Mar. 31/1 A mutation leading to strong constitutivity for a uric acid-xanthine permease in..Aspergillus nidulans has been found to be tightly linked to the putative structural gene whose expression it controls.

1978 Molecular & Gen. Genetics CLXVI. 256/2 The durO^h mutation causes high constitutivity of urea amidolyase synthesis.

Draft additions September 2017

constitutive theory n. International Law the theory that a state must be recognized by other states in order to legally exist (opposed to declaratory theory n. at declaratory adj. and n. Additions).

ΚΠ

1910 Stud. Hist., Econ. & Publ. Law 36 Contents 11 Objection to a constitutive theory.

1934 Yale Law Jrnl. 44 382 Mr. Jaffe rejects the constitutive theory which makes the international personality of a state dependent on recognition.

1972 J. C. Hsiung Law & Policy in China's Foreign Relations 219 He traced to the constitutive theory an intent to submit newly independent states to the certification by a capitalist-dominated world community.

2015 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 6 Jan. (Foreign Desk section) Under the constitutive theory, statehood depends on recognition: An entity is a state when other states say it is.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

单词	constitutive
释义	constitutiveadj.n. /ˈkɒnstɪˌtjuːtɪv/ Etymology: < Latin type constitūtīvus (perhaps in medieval Latin), < constitūt-* participial stem: see constitute adj. and n. and -ive suffix. French constitutif, -ive is in Cotgrave 1611. A. adj. 1. a. Having the power of constituting, establishing, or giving formal, definite, or organized existence to something; constructive.In the Kantian Philosophy, constitutive ideas or principles of reason are opposed to regulative (regulative adj. 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > creating, fashioning, shaping, or forming > having the ability or power to create or creative formative1490 factive1535 constitutive1592 plastical1615 forming1644 plastic1646 elaborative1845 1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. i. § 46 An Instrument constitutive is such an Instrument under the proper hand of the party as testifieth and describeth some contract of some debt or dutie to be paied, or some fact to be done or performed as an obligation. 1670 R. Baxter Cure Church-div. 277 The Churches Constitutive or Governing Head. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. App. E p. xlvii Whether Ideas are regulative only, according to Aristotle and Kant; or likewise Constitutive, and one with the power and Life of Nature. 1856 J. M. D. Meiklejohn tr. I. Kant Crit. Pure Reason 317. 1867 J. H. Stirling tr. A. Schwegler Handbk. Hist. Philos. xxxviii. 231 [Kant] These ideas, if not constitutive principles to extend our knowledge beyond the bounds of experience, are regulative principles to arrange experience. 1870 J. B. Brown First Princ. Eccl. Truth 256 The great constitutive ideas which have moulded powerfully the institutions of society. 1879 R. Adamson Philos. Kant 107 The principle [of the intelligibility of Nature]..under which we subsume real experience is not constitutive but regulative, a mere maxim of reason, and subjective. b. Having the power of appointing to an office. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > [adjective] > having power of appointing constitutive1682 constituent1769 1682 Modest Enq. Election Sheriffs London 37 The Concurrence, Vote and constitutive Consent of a competent number of Free-men. 2. That makes a thing what it is; forming an essential part or element; essential. 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 1610 Bp. J. Hall Common Apol. against Brownists 10 You call for a double separation,—a first separation in the gathering of the Church..But of this constitutiue separation anone. 1654 O. Cromwell Speech 12 Sept. (Carlyle) Government by a single person and a Parliament is a Fundamental; it is the esse; it is Constitutive. a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Eternal & Immutable Morality (1731) iv. vi. 284 The Constitutive Essences of all Individual Created Things. 1853 R. C. Trench On Lessons in Proverbs 16 Its constitutive element..is not the utterance on the part of the one, but the acceptance on the part of the many. 3. That makes up or goes to make up; forming a part or element; constituent, 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 a1640 T. Jackson Wks. (1673) II. 637 All the learning which he hath besides..is no constitutive part of the faculty which he professeth. 1670 E. Maynwaring Vita Sana & Longa (new ed.) i. 13 Subject to corruption and dissolution, through the fragility of constitutive parts. a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) ii. vi. 143 The constitutive parts of the drama are six. 1861 in W. Thomson Aids to Faith i. 5 (note) Constitutive elements of the revelation itself. 4. With of: That constitutes, makes, forms, establishes, or determines. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > creating, fashioning, shaping, or forming > constitutive of constitutive1659 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 366 That may be essential to a Parliament that is not constitutive of a Parliament. 1684 2 Steps of Nonconf. Minister 11 Constitutive of duty. 1858 Nat. Rev. Oct. 499 Of the three conceivable functions constitutive of a clerical order,—the Priestly, the Rabbinical, and the Prophetic,—the first is with us extinct. †5. Of a constituted character. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 26 My judgment concurs wholly with your vote for two Houses. The question now is, what that House shall be, whether constitutive or restitutive. 6. constitutive equation n. (see quot. 1961). ΚΠ 1955 W. Noll in Jrnl. Rational Mech. & Anal. 4 17 The equations..are not sufficient to determine the motions of continuous media. We must have in addition certain constitutive equations defining the particular ideal material which we wish to study. These equations will be functional relations..between the stress..the density..and the motion. 1960 J. L. Ericksen in Archive for Rational Mech. & Anal. IV. 233 As a general principle to be used in constructing constitutive equations, Truesdell has proposed that the stress and heat flux should be assumed to depend on the same variables. 1961 W. Prager Introd. Mech. Continua iv. 88 The equations of continuity and motion do not contain any information regarding the mechanical properties of the continuum under consideration because they hold for any continuum. These properties are specified by the constitutive equation; this is a tensor equation, which establishes a relation between statical and kinematical tensors, for instance the stress or the stress rate..and the rate of deformation or the strain. 7. Biochemistry. Of, pertaining to, or being an enzyme or enzyme system that is continuously produced in an organism rather than depending on the presence of an inducer. Opposed to inducible adj. 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [adjective] > of nucleic acid > of enzymes constitutive1932 Michaelis–Menten1934 inducible1953 angiotensinase1958 1932 Biochem. Jrnl. 26 1859 Karström..concluded that bacterial enzymes may be classified as either constitutive or adaptive. The former are invariably present in the bacteria; the presence of the latter depends on the presence..of the substrate upon which they act. 1953 Nature 12 Dec. 1096/1 It is..possible to obtain mutants in which synthesis of a particular enzyme is wholly constitutive. 1964 G. H. Haggis et al. Introd. Molecular Biol. x. 277 Mutants in either the regulator gene or the operator segment are detected as ‘constitutive mutants’; they synthesize both enzymes at maximum rate irrespective of the presence or absence of inducer. 1968 A. White et al. Princ. Biochem. (ed. 4) 683 Constitutive enzymes remain at the same level regardless of the amount of potential inducer added to the cell culture. 1981 Sci. Amer. June 69/2 Many Gram-negative bacteria also produce a beta-lactamase, and in these organisms the enzyme is often constitutive. †B. n. A constitutive part or element, a constituent. Obsolete. rare. 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 1647 H. Hammond Of Power of Keyes iv. 73 I much wonder why..in the number of the constitutives of externall Communion, publick prayer is not mentioned. 1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 51 According to his compleat Essential Form or Constitutive. Derivatives ˌconstituˈtivity n. Biochemistry the property of being constitutive (sense A. 7 above). ΚΠ 1953 M. Cohn et al. in Nature 12 Dec. 1096/2 Thus ‘constitutivity’ and ‘inducibility’ are properties of enzyme-forming systems, not of enzymes per se, and can be used as significant expressions only in a biological frame of reference, not in a chemical one. It should be stressed that the notions of constitutivity and inducibility are relative, not absolute; in any given biological system, a certain fraction of a particular enzyme-forming capacity may be constitutive, the remaining fraction inducible. For the sake of convenience, one may wish to refer to ‘an induced enzyme’ or to ‘a constitutive enzyme’; but it should always be kept in mind that these are shorthand expressions for ‘an enzyme the formation of which is largely or entirely inducible (or constitutive) in the particular organism concerned’. 1968 Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 166 589 (heading) Constitutivity of thymidine phosphorylase in deoxyriboaldolase negative strains: dependence on thymine requirement and concentration. 1975 Nature 6 Mar. 31/1 A mutation leading to strong constitutivity for a uric acid-xanthine permease in..Aspergillus nidulans has been found to be tightly linked to the putative structural gene whose expression it controls. 1978 Molecular & Gen. Genetics CLXVI. 256/2 The durO^h mutation causes high constitutivity of urea amidolyase synthesis. Draft additions September 2017 constitutive theory n. International Law the theory that a state must be recognized by other states in order to legally exist (opposed to declaratory theory n. at declaratory adj. and n. Additions). ΚΠ 1910 Stud. Hist., Econ. & Publ. Law 36 Contents 11 Objection to a constitutive theory. 1934 Yale Law Jrnl. 44 382 Mr. Jaffe rejects the constitutive theory which makes the international personality of a state dependent on recognition. 1972 J. C. Hsiung Law & Policy in China's Foreign Relations 219 He traced to the constitutive theory an intent to submit newly independent states to the certification by a capitalist-dominated world community. 2015 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 6 Jan. (Foreign Desk section) Under the constitutive theory, statehood depends on recognition: An entity is a state when other states say it is. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < adj.n.1592
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