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constitucion (c.1292)
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constitucion (c.1292)

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constitucione,  constitucioun,  constitution  
  FEW:  constituere 2/ii,1084b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  constitution 9,169c TL: ∅ DEAF: ∅ DMF:  constitution  TLF:  constitution  OED:  constitution n.  MED:  constitucioun n.  DMLBS:  constitutio 458b

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1establishment, setting up: 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  Et acune foiz est le soil enservé de dreit, tut ne soit il par constitucioun (=ordinance) ne par constitucioun de pesible seisine  BRITT i 362
2lawact of making laws: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  tut soit qe totes creatures diussent (l. duissent) estre franches solom lei de nature, par constitution neqedent e fet de hommes sunt genz e autres creatures enservés  Mir Just 77
( 1397 )  le principal governement de chescun roy doit comencer de constitution des loies  Rot Parl1 iii 347
♦lawordinance, statute: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  solom la constitucion de Wyncestre  Mir Just 27
( 1387 )  Ceux sount les constitucions et ordinances […] de les esporoners  YMB i 101
( a.1399; MS: a.1399 )  ceo fuist encontre la ley et les constituciones de seint esglise  Anon Chr1 103.35
♦lawconstitution, body of law or customs: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  a tort e encountre le ordeinement e la general constitucion du reaume  Court Bar (A) 23
3purport, wording (of official document): 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  en autre manere qe solom la constitucioun del premer assent  BRITT i 387
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  solom la constitucion de la chartre des franchises  Mir Just 151
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