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constitutionalise

constitutionalise is the alternative spelling of constitutionalize.

Meaning of constitutionalize

Verb

constitutionalize (third-person singular simple present constitutionalizes, present participle constitutionalizing, simple past and past participle constitutionalized)

  1. To incorporate into a constitution
  2. To provide with a constitution
  3. To make constitutional
    • Governmental searches of vehicles regularly occur via exceptions to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement; a myriad of decisions have constitutionalized warrantless searches of vehicles, their compartments, their containers and even their occupants.2021 May 17, Lenese Herbert, “In unanimous Fourth Amendment ruling, a reminder that there is, in fact, no place like home”, in SCOTUSblog

Forms of constitutionalise

third-person singular presentconstitutionalises
present participleconstitutionalising
past participleconstitutionalised
pastconstitutionalised

Origin of constitutionalise

From constitutional + -ise.

Questions about constitutionalise

What is constitutionalise the alternative spelling of?
Constitutionalise is the alternative spelling of constitutionalize.

Words near constitutionalise in the dictionary

  1. constitutional rights
  2. constitutional silver
  3. constitutional type
  4. constitutional types
  5. constitutionalisation
  6. constitutionalise
  7. constitutionalised
  8. constitutionalises
  9. constitutionalising
  10. constitutionalism
  11. constitutionalisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: constitutionalise (page history and authors); constitutionalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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