construct state

American  

[kon-struhkt] / ˈkɒn strʌkt /

noun

Grammar.

1. (in Semitic languages) the inflected form of a noun dependent on a following noun, with the combination expressing a genitive relationship, as Hebrew beth David “house of David,” where beth “house of ” is the construct form of bayit “house.”

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Etymology

Origin of construct state

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

His set of armor took him six months to construct out of EVA foam.

From The Verge • Oct. 9, 2016

Part post-apocalyptic psychological thriller and part teenage coming-of-age drama, “Z for Zachariah” upends the conventions of both those genres to construct, out of their ruins, something else entirely.

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2015

What one would have to do, therefore, would be to prove that it is impossible or illegitimate to construct out of them his fearsome monster .

From Time Magazine Archive

These facts have suggested a second purpose of digestion—that of reducing foods to forms sufficiently simple to enable the body to construct out of them the more complex materials that it needs.

From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.

Well, then, see what a god we can construct out of intelligence and power, with love left out!

From Robert Browning by Dowden, Edward