[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

constituent \constit"uent\ ko^nsti^t"-u-ent, a.
   l. constituens, -entis, p. pr. see constitute.
   1. serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental;
      component.
      1913 webster

            body, soul, and reason are the three parts
            necessarily constituent of a man.     --dryden.
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   2. having the power of electing or appointing.
      1913 webster

            a question of right arises between the constituent
            and representative body.              --junius.
      1913 webster
see also:
constitute 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

constituent \constit"uent\, n.
   1. the person or thing which constitutes, determines, or
      constructs.
      1913 webster

            their first composure and origination require a
            higher and nobler constituent than chance. --sir m.
                                                  hale
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   2. that which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an
      essential part; a component; an element.
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            we know how to bring these constituents together,
            and to cause them to form water.      --tyndall.
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   3. one for whom another acts; especially, one who is
      represented by another in a legislative assembly; --
      correlative to representative.
      1913 webster

            the electors in the district of a representative in
            congress, or in the legislature of a state, are
            termed his constituents.              --abbot.
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            to appeal from the representatives to the
            constituents.                         --macaulay.
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   4. law a person who appoints another to act for him as
      attorney in fact. --burrill.
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[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

constituent
     adj : constitutional in the structure of something especially
           your physical makeup syn: constituenta, constitutional,
            constitutivea, organic
     n 1: an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a
          composite entity is made up; especially a part that can
          be separated from or attached to a system; "spare
          components for cars"; "a component or constituent
          element of a system" syn: component, element
     2: a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in
        a government by officials for whom he or she votes; "needs
        continued support by constituents to be re-elected"
     3: grammar a word or phrase or clause forming part of a
        larger grammatical construction syn: grammatical
        constituent
     4: an abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of
        his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition
        are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a
        sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an
        effective ingredient of a speech" syn: component, element,
         factor, ingredient
see also:
constituenta constitutional constitutivea organic component element 
grammatical constituent factor ingredient 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

97 moby thesaurus words for "constituent":
   ab ovo, adjunct, adoptive, air, appointive, appurtenance, aspect,
   atom, atomic particles, basal, basic, brute matter, building block,
   census, chemical element, choosing, choosy, circumstance,
   component, composition, constituents, constitutive, content,
   contents, detail, discriminating, division, divisions, earth,
   eclectic, elective, electoral, element, elemental, elementary,
   elementary particle, elementary unit, elements, essential, factor,
   feature, fire, fixings, formative, fraction, fundamental,
   fundamental particle, gut, guts, hyle, hypostasis, index,
   ingredient, ingredients, innards, insides, integral, integrant,
   inventory, item, items, list, makings, material, material world,
   materiality, matter, molecule, monad, natural world, nature,
   of the essence, original, part, part and parcel, particular, parts,
   physical world, plenum, portion, primal, primary, primitive,
   radical, selecting, selective, specialty, stuff, substance,
   substantial, substantive, substratum, the four elements,
   underlying, unit of being, water, whole

[5] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

constituent. he who gives authority to another to act for him. 1 bouv. inst. 
n. 893. 
     2. the constituent is bound with whatever his attorney does by virtue 
of his authority. the electors of a member of the legislature are his 
constituents, to whom he is responsible for his legislative acts. 

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