constitution

noun

set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is governed
legislative enactment by a Roman emperor
comprise
description of the identity and connectivity (and corresponding bond multiplicities) of the atoms in a molecular entity (omitting any distinction arising from their spatial arrangement).

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˌkɒn.stɪˈtjuː.ʃ(ə)n/ / /-ˈtʃuː-/ / /ˌkɑn.stɪˈtu.ʃ(ə)n/

name

The supreme law of some countries, such as Australia, Ireland, and the United States.
“The Constitution is anchored in English liberal thought and the Magna Carta.”
“The US Constitution was written in 1787.”

noun

Etymology: PIE word *ḱóm From Middle English constitucioun, constitucion (“edict, law, ordinance, regulation, rule, statute; body of laws or rules, or customs; body of fundamental principles; principle or rule (of science); creation”) from Old French constitucion (modern French constitution), a learned borrowing from Latin cōnstitūtiō, cōnstitūtiōnem (“character, constitution, disposition, nature; definition; point in dispute; order, regulation; arrangement, system”), from cōnstituō (“to establish, set up; to confirm; to decide, resolve”). Equivalent to constitute + -ion.

The act, or process of setting something up, or establishing something; the composition or structure of such a thing; its makeup.
“the physical constitution of the sun”
The formal or informal system of primary principles and laws that regulates a government or other institutions.
“1693, Edmund Bohun, A Geographical Dictionary They have in their present Constitution a Grand Council of the Nobility, a Senato, a College of Twenty six who give Audience to Ambassadors and report their Demands to the Senate, a Council of Ten; and a Triumvirate (monthly chosen by, and out of, the Ten) of three Inquisitors of State; whose Authority is so absolute, as to extend to the taking away of the Life of the Doge no less than the meanest Artisan, without acquainting the Senate, provided they all three agree in the Sentence.”
“Our constitution had begun to exist in times when statesmen were not much accustomed to frame exact definitions.”
A legal document describing such a formal system.
A document issued by a religious authority serving to promulgate some particular church laws or doctrines.
A person's physical makeup or temperament, especially in respect of robustness.
“He has a strong constitution, so he should make a quick recovery from the illness.”
“Our constitutions have never been enfeebled by the vices or luxuries of the old world.”
The general health of a person.
“But when once his constitution began to decline, he broke very fast, and being attacked bya complication of diseases, he at length gave way to fate, May 10, 1733.”
“Don Manuel de Casafonda the governor, whose countenance bespoke a constitution far gone in a decliner had thrown himself on a sopha in the last state of despair and given way to an effusion of tears:”