a. | 1. | Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component. |
2. | Having the power of electing or appointing. | |
n. | 1. | The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs. |
2. | That which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an essential part; a component; an element. | |
3. | One for whom another acts; especially, one who is represented by another in a legislative assembly; - correlative to | |
4. | (Law) A person who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact. |
Noun | 1. | constituent - 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" |
2. | constituent - 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. | constituent - (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction Synonyms: grammatical constituent | |
4. | constituent - 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" | |
Adj. | 1. | constituent - constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup) |
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.