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Constitutional

adjective

1.

Of benefit to or intended to benefit your physical makeup.

2.

Sanctioned by or consistent with or operating under the law determining the fundamental political principles of a government. "Constitutional government" , "Constitutional guarantees"

3.

Existing as an essential constituent or characteristic. Synonyms: built-in, inbuilt, inherent, integral. "A constitutional inability to tell the truth"

4.

Constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup). Synonyms: constituent, constitutive, organic.

noun

1.

A regular walk taken as a form of exercise.

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"Constitutional" Quotes from Famous Books

... Government briefly were these: That under the Supplemental Charter it was the only constitutional change possible; that the financial burden was not too heavy; that the native question was no bar; that the Imperial Government would never saddle the country with the huge debt of the Company; that under the ...

— An African Adventure • Isaac F. Marcosson

... "Old man, you are mistaken! I wished to stamp upon your brain the clearest possible image of constitutional government" [all the clerks look at Bixiou; Poiret, stupefied, gazes at him uneasily], "and also to keep my word to you. In so doing I employed the parabolical method of savages. Listen and comprehend: While the ministers start discussions in the Chambers that are just about as useful and as ...

— Bureaucracy • Honore de Balzac

... that with that has come a change of talk about sin, the thing that was supposed to be responsible for making the world so bad. Sin is not such a damnable thing now, apparently. It is largely constitutional weakness, or prenatal predilection, or the idiosyncrasy of individuality. (Big words are in favor here. They always make such talk seem wise and plausible.) Heaven has slipped largely out of view; and—hell, too, even more. Churchmen in the ...

— Quiet Talks with World Winners • S. D. Gordon

... elected that tool of tools, President Supple, in 1920, on the Anti-Socialist ticket, we still had some constitutional rights left—a few. But now, all are gone. With the absorption and annexation of Canada, Mexico and Central America, slavery full and absolute settled down upon us. The unions simply crumbled to dust as you know, in face of all those millions ...

— The Air Trust • George Allan England

... 19 at the age of seventy. Nothing is known of his life, or of the poems which Jerome attributes to him; but he certainly wrote Annales (Nonius, p. 154). He is also quoted as an authority on miscellaneous antiquarian and constitutional points. ...

— The Student's Companion to Latin Authors • George Middleton

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