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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

... a man of middle age who, through constitutional delicacy, looked older than his years. His features, well-cut in themselves, were marred by the excessive thinness and pallor of his face; and his eyes, beneath their heavy lids, told a story of unrestful nights spent in wrestling with some mental or physical pain which forbade the ...

— Afterwards • Kathlyn Rhodes

... did so because it is in the shape of a serpent," suggested Grexon; "a constitutional failing, perhaps. Some people hate cats and other fluttering birds. Your one-eyed friend may have a loathing of snakes and can't bear to ...

— The Opal Serpent • Fergus Hume

... suffering from disease, the experiment of a residence in Ceylon is one of questionable propriety. Those of a scrofulous diathesis need not consider it hazardous, as experience does not show that in such there is any greater susceptibility to local or constitutional disorders, or that when these are present, there is greater difficulty in ...

— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent

... assembly was created; a governor was appointed by the President of the United States; and a delegate was sent to Congress, instead of a crowd of lobbyists, to represent the District of Columbia. This delegate is always to be a member of the committee on the District, Congress has the constitutional right of exclusive legislation, and the Assembly cannot impose taxes of any consequence without ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 • Various

... open air," he said to me, when he came to my rooms on the morning after he had snored, and he looked at a volume of Stubbs' Constitutional History as if he was very tired of it. I was also feeling rather dull, for I had already got through a fortnight of my gating, and to be kept in college after nine o'clock night after night ...

— Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate • Charles Turley

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