Constituent

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Constituent \Con*stit"u*ent\ (k[o^]n*st[i^]t"[-u]*[-e]nt), a.
     [L. constituens, -entis, p. pr. See {Constitute}.]
     1. Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental;
        component.
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              Body, soul, and reason are the three parts
              necessarily constituent of a man.     --Dryden.
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     2. Having the power of electing or appointing.
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              A question of right arises between the constituent
              and representative body.              --Junius.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Constituent \Con*stit"u*ent\, n.
     1. The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or
        constructs.
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              Their first composure and origination require a
              higher and nobler constituent than chance. --Sir M.
                                                    Hale
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     2. That which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an
        essential part; a component; an element.
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              We know how to bring these constituents together,
              and to cause them to form water.      --Tyndall.
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     3. One for whom another acts; especially, one who is
        represented by another in a legislative assembly; --
        correlative to representative.
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              The electors in the district of a representative in
              Congress, or in the legislature of a State, are
              termed his constituents.              --Abbot.
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              To appeal from the representatives to the
              constituents.                         --Macaulay.
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     4. (Law) A person who appoints another to act for him as
        attorney in fact. --Burrill.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  constituent
       adj : constitutional in the structure of something (especially
             your physical makeup) [syn: {constituent(a)}, {constitutional},
              {constitutive(a)}, {organic}]
       n 1: an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a
            composite entity is made up; especially a part that can
            be separated from or attached to a system; "spare
            components for cars"; "a component or constituent
            element of a system" [syn: {component}, {element}]
       2: a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in
          a government by officials for whom he or she votes; "needs
          continued support by constituents to be re-elected"
       3: (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a
          larger grammatical construction [syn: {grammatical
          constituent}]
       4: an abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of
          his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition
          are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a
          sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an
          effective ingredient of a speech" [syn: {component}, {element},
           {factor}, {ingredient}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  97 Moby Thesaurus words for "constituent":
     ab ovo, adjunct, adoptive, air, appointive, appurtenance, aspect,
     atom, atomic particles, basal, basic, brute matter, building block,
     census, chemical element, choosing, choosy, circumstance,
     component, composition, constituents, constitutive, content,
     contents, detail, discriminating, division, divisions, earth,
     eclectic, elective, electoral, element, elemental, elementary,
     elementary particle, elementary unit, elements, essential, factor,
     feature, fire, fixings, formative, fraction, fundamental,
     fundamental particle, gut, guts, hyle, hypostasis, index,
     ingredient, ingredients, innards, insides, integral, integrant,
     inventory, item, items, list, makings, material, material world,
     materiality, matter, molecule, monad, natural world, nature,
     of the essence, original, part, part and parcel, particular, parts,
     physical world, plenum, portion, primal, primary, primitive,
     radical, selecting, selective, specialty, stuff, substance,
     substantial, substantive, substratum, the four elements,
     underlying, unit of being, water, whole
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CONSTITUENT. He who gives authority to another to act for him. 1 Bouv. Inst. 
  n. 893. 
       2. The constituent is bound with whatever his attorney does by virtue 
  of his authority. The electors of a member of the legislature are his 
  constituents, to whom he is responsible for his legislative acts.