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Meaning of CONSTITUTIONALLY

Pronunciation:  `kânsti'tooshunllee

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 Definition: [adv]  according to the constitution; "this was constitutionally ruled out"
 
 Antonyms: unconstitutionally
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Con`sti*tu"tion*al*ly\, adv.
1. In accordance with the constitution or natural disposition
   of the mind or body; naturally; as, he was
   constitutionally timid.

         The English were constitutionally humane. --Hallam.

2. In accordance with the constitution or fundamental law;
   legally; as, he was not constitutionally appointed.

         Nothing would indue them to acknowledge that [such]
         an assembly . . . was constitutionally a Parliament.
                                               --Macaulay.

 

 

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