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constitutionalize en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree English constitutional Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English constitutionalize From constitutional + -ize.

Meanings

  1. To incorporate into a constitution
  2. To provide with a constitution
  3. To make constitutional
    • Governmental searches of vehicles regularly occur via exceptions to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement; a myriad of decisions have constitutionalized warrantless searches of vehicles, their compartments, their containers and even their occupants. 2021 May 17, Lenese Herbert, “In unanimous Fourth Amendment ruling, a reminder that there is, in fact, no place like home”, in SCOTUSblog:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
constitutionalizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
constitutionalized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
constitutionalized Tense=Past lexicographic
constitutionalizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

constitutionalization · deconstitutionalize

Translations (2)

ja 憲法化する (Translations) · fr constitutionaliser (Translations)