having the power or authority to constitute, establish or enact something / having the power or authority to appoint someone to office / extremely important, essential

in a constitutive manner / (biochemistry, of a metabolic process) at a constant rate regardless of physiological demand

The state or quality of being constitutive.

Capable of being constituted.

Having a constitution of a specified kind.

plural of constituter

One who constitutes or appoints.

plural of constitutional

(transitive) To set up; to establish; to enact. / (transitive) To make up; to compose; to form. / (transitive) To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.

(law) The supreme law of some countries, such as Australia, Ireland, and the United States.