单词 | constitutionalize |
释义 | constiˈtutionalize, v. [f. as prec. + -ize. Cf. mod.F. constitutionnaliser (Littré).] 1. trans. [f. the adj.] To make constitutional.
1831Fraser's Mag. III. 443 Having endeavoured to constitutionalize Spain. 1859Masson Brit. Novelists iv. 254 A wave of democratic revolution..constitutionalizing for a moment absolute governments. 2. intr. [f. the n.] To take a ‘constitutional’. colloq.
1852Bristed 5 Years Eng. Univ. (ed. 2) 19 The most usual mode of exercise is walking—constitutionalizing is the Cantab for it. 1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue §310 A walk for the sake of bodily exercise having been called a ‘constitutional’, the verb constitutionalize was soon formed. Hence constiˈtutionalizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1846Mozley Ess. (1878) 302 He could do nothing with his Constitutionalising Parliaments but dissolve them. 1848Fraser's Mag. XXXVII. 484 The constitutionalising of Rhenish Germany. 1888W. Knight Principal Shairp 41 The daily routine of constitutionalising. |

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