CONSTITUTE, v.t. [L., to set.]
1. To set; to fix; to enact; to establish.We must obey laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority, not against the law of God.2. To form or compose; to give formal existence to; to make a thing what it is.Perspicuity constitutes the prime excellence of style.Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction.3. To appoint, depute or elect to an office or employment; to make and empower.A sheriff is constituted a conservator of the peace.A has constituted B his attorney or agent.