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adjective

Constitutional adj.

Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind; as, a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or dullness.

In accordance with, or authorized by, the constitution of a state or a society; as, constitutional reforms.

Regulated by, dependent on, or secured by, a constitution; as, constitutional government; constitutional rights.

Relating to a constitution, or establishment form of government; as, a constitutional risis. "The anient constitutional traditions of the state."

For the benefit or one's constitution or health; as, a constitutional walk. (Colloq.)

Constitutional law, law that relates to the constitution, as a permanent system of political and juridical government, as distinguished from statutory and common law, which relate to matters subordinate to such constitution.

noun

Constitutional n. A walk or other exercise taken for one's health or constitution. (Colloq.) "The men trudged diurnal constitutionals along the different roads."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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