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Word Meanings - CONSTITUTIONALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

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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 an assembly . . . was constitutionally a Parliament. Macaulay.

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  • NATURALIST
    1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
  • ENGLISHWOMAN
    Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
  • NATURAL STEEL
    Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
  • CONSTITUTIONALIST
    One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.
  • CONSTITUTION
    1. The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation. 2. The state of being; that form of being, or structure and connection of parts, which constitutes and characterizes
  • NATURAL
    Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info)
  • FUNDAMENTALLY
    Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. "Fundamentally defective." Burke.
  • NATURALIZE
    1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of
  • TIMIDITY
    The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.
  • TIMID
    Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson. Syn. -- Fearful; timorous; afraid; cowardly; pusillanimous; faint- hearted; shrinking; retiring. -- Tim"id*ly,
  • NATURALNESS
    The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.
  • LEGALLY
    In a legal manner.
  • TIMIDOUS
    Timid. Hudibras.
  • NATURALISM
    The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting
  • NATURALLY
    In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously.
  • FUNDAMENTAL
    Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. Some
  • CONSTITUTIONALITY
    1. The quality or state of being constitutional, or inherent in the natural frame. 2. The state of being consistent with the constitution or frame of government, or of being authorized by its provisions. Burke. Constitutionalities, bottomless
  • CONSTITUTIONIST
    One who adheres to the constitution of the country. Bolingbroke.
  • CONSTITUTIONAL
    1. Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind; as, a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or dullness. 2. In accordance with, or authorized by, the constitution of a state or a society;
  • HUMANE
    1. Pertaining to man; human. Jer. Taylor. 2. Having the feelings and inclinations creditable to man; having a disposition to treat other human beings or animals with kindness; kind; benevolent. Of an exceeding courteous and humane inclination.
  • SUPERNATURALNESS
    The quality or state of being supernatural.
  • PRETERNATURALITY
    Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
  • FATIMITE; FATIMIDE
    Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.
  • SUPERNATURAL
    Being beyond, or exceeding, the power or laws of nature; miraculous. Syn. -- Preternatural. -- Supernatural, Preternatural. Preternatural signifies beside nature, and supernatural, above or beyond nature. What is very greatly aside from the ordinary
  • INTIMIDATORY
    Tending or serving to intimidate.
  • SUPERNATURALISM
    The doctrine of a divine and supernatural agency in the production of the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in the grace which renews and sanctifies men, -- in opposition to the doctrine which denies the agency of any other than
  • PRETERNATURALISM
    The state of being preternatural; a preternatural condition.
  • CONNATURALITY
    Participation of the same nature; natural union or connection. A congruity and connaturality between them. Sir M. Hale.
  • SUPRANATURALISM
    The state of being supernatural; belief in supernatural agency or revelation; supernaturalism.
  • CONNATURAL
    1. Connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural. These affections are connatural to us. L'Estrange. 2. Partaking of the same nature. And mix with our connatural dust. Milton.

 

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