constitute
verb (used with object)
to compose; form.
self-constituted
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a word derived from
constitute.
Example Sentences
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Chairman of a self-constituted intercongregational lay committee, he campaigned with the argument that three in every seven Jewish families in Louisville neglected to keep up congregational membership.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Beecham cannot be dismissed merely as a brilliant swashbuckler or the self-constituted enfant terrible of music, for the Beecham legend stands on a rock of solid musical achievement.
From Time Magazine Archive
The self-constituted group, the therapists decided, had been readymade for treatment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some 500 deputies and senators met as a self-constituted National Assembly, took a solemn oath "to defend the Constitution and defend our liberties even if it means sacrificing our lives."
From Time Magazine Archive
This was a turn in affairs which the self-constituted vindicators of public morality had not contemplated, and accordingly they proceeded no further in their purpose.
From Some Phases of Sexual Morality and Church Discipline in Colonial New England by Charles Francis Adams
