constitute-v; 3 Senses

Sense Number 1: form or compose

Examples:
These constitute my entire belongings.
What constitutes the Holy Grail for some is just business as usual for others.
This report constitutes the proceedings of the Fifteenth Text Retrieval Conference.
The Wall, Forts, and associated structures together constituted the Roman Frontier.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: constitute.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 3

Sense Number 2: set up, establish

Examples:
They would respectfully ask to be constituted the Medical Department of the university.
To achieve those goals, IOM constituted the Committee for the Workshop on the
Medicolegal Death Investigation System.

Mappings:
VerbNet: establish-55.5
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4

Sense Number 3: appoint

Commentary:
NOTE: Use may be obsolete.

Examples:
About the same time he was constituted warden of all the king's forests.
He was constituted 5 March 1784 one of the lords commissioners of trade and plantations.
The General Conference of 1872 constituted her a member of the board of
managers of the Ladies and Pastors' Christian Union.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2