Obs. or arch. Also 5–6 constitut. [ad. L. constitūt-us, pa. pple. of constituĕre; in later use prob. regarded as contracted from constituted.]
A. as pa. pple. Constituted, appointed, established, etc.; see the verb.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 71/2. Thenne our lord sente pestylence the tyme constytute.
1486. Lichfield Gild Register, lf. 8 b. [We] haue ordened and constitute vpon certaine articles for the … welfare of the Cominalte.
1534. More, On the Passion, Wks. 1283/1. As by the disobedience of one manne, many be constitute and made synners.
1552. Abp. Hamilton, Catech. (1884), 16. Ane sacrament is constitute or maid of twa principal partes.
1613. Salkeld, Angels, 39. As though they [Angels] were … constitute of matter and forme as man is.
1719. Wodrow Corr. (1843), II. 443. It could not be read till the Assembly was constitute.
1808. Jamieson, s.v., An ecclesiastical court … is said to be constitute with prayer by the Moderator.
B. as ppl. a. = CONSTITUTED.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, III. xxv. (Arb.), 311. The vertues of a well constitute body and minde.
1741. J. Short, in Phil. Trans., XLI. 625. The most irregularly constitute Year of any in my Time.
1818. Colebrooke, Oblig. & Contracts, I. 119. Constitute, or subsequent undertaking of a person, who engages to pay a subsisting debt, or fulfil an existing obligation of [another].
C. as sb. a. An ordinance. b. A person instituted to an office.
c. 1561. T. Preston, Cambises, in Hazl., Dodsley, IV. 189. A naughty man that will not obey the kings constitute.
a. 1610. in Maidment, Sc. Pasquils, 9. They’ll say they have their substituts, But I say these are not Christ’s constituts.
