adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a constitutive manner.
1656. J. Harrington, Oceana, 48 (Jod.). The great council, or assembly of the people, in whom the result is constitutively.
a. 1677. Manton, Wks. (1870), I. 426. We are now pardoned and justified constitutively by the tenor of the new covenant.
1862. F. Hall, Hindu Philos. Syst., 231. In order that their unintelligent Brahma should be made out constitutively cognition, they have altered the sense of the word cognition.
1881. J. H. Stirling, Text-bk. Kant, 286. A principle that holds of objects (as mere phenomena of sense) not constitutively, but only regulatively.
