Also 6–7 -our, 7–9 -er. [a. L. constitūtor, agent-n. from constituĕre to CONSTITUTE. Cf. F. constituteur (16th c. in Littré).] One who or that which constitutes, makes, frames, establishes, etc.: see the verb.
1531. Elyot, Gov., III. vii. Justyce … the chiefe constitutour and maker of a publike weale.
1601. Cornwallyes, Ess., II. li. (1631), 327. Constitutors of Societies.
1697. J. Sergeant, Solid Philos., 261. Having one and the Self-same Constituter.
1747. Hooson, Miner’s Dict., N j b. The Constituters of this Oblique and irregular mineral Diagram.
1759. Goldsm., The Bee, No. 7. Elocution is only an assistant, but not a constituter, of eloquence.
1856. J. R. Ballantyne, Sánkhya Aphorisms, 65. The vital air is not the constituter of the Body.
b. A framer of a (political) constitution.
1658–9. Burton’s Diary (1828), III. 473. You are the constitutors. It is yet in your power … to stay settling the constitution.
1796. W. Taylon in Monthly Rev., XXI. 540. The definition of the French constitutors has restricted … the meaning of the word liberty.
