ppl. a. Of good make or constitution; rightly formed or framed.
c. 1763. Shenstone, Ess., Wks. 1768, II. 279. If we should strive to please a well-constituted taste.
1833. J. H. Newman, Arians, II. i. (1876), 145. So reluctant is a well-constituted mind to reflect on its own motive principles.
1836. A. Combe, Physiol. Digestion (ed. 2), 263. A healthy and well-constituted nurse.
1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, iii. 74. When asked what made an orderly and well-constituted state, Solon answered, ‘When the people obey the rulers, and the rulers obey the laws.’
