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Webster 1913 Edition


Constitutionally

Conˊsti-tu′tion-al-ly

,
adv.
1.
In accordance with the constitution or natural disposition of the mind or body; naturally;
as, he was
constitutionally
timid
.
The English were
constitutionally
humane.
Hallam.
2.
In accordance with the constitution or fundamental law; legally;
as, he was not
constitutionally
appointed
.
Nothing would indue them to acknowledge that [such] an assembly . . . was
constitutionally
a Parliament.
Macaulay.

Webster 1828 Edition


Constitutionally

CONSTITUTIONALLY

,
adv.
In consistency with the constitution or frame of government.

Definition 2024


constitutionally

constitutionally

English

Adverb

constitutionally (comparative more constitutionally, superlative most constitutionally)

  1. Pertaining to one's bodily constitution; physically, physiologically.
    • 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage 2010, p. 246:
      The astonishing progress of science had made God quite irrelevant; it had caused human beings to focus so intently on the physical world that they would soon be constitutionally unable to take God seriously.
  2. In accordance with a political constitution.