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- adjective Having a
constitution of a specified kind.
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Examples
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Ninety-nine per cent. of our strong constitutioned men, now in physical ruin, have wrecked themselves on the breakers of an unnatural love.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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Ninety-nine per cent. of our strong constitutioned men, now in physical ruin, have wrecked themselves on the breakers of an unnatural love.
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Certainly he is a strong-minded and iron-constitutioned man; hut, looking at the stump of his arm, he said that the pain of the mind was a thousand times greater than the pain of the body.
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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Multum-in-Parvo was a good, sound-constitutioned horse, hard and firm as a cricket-ball, a horse that would not turn a hair for a trifle even on a hunting morning, let alone on such a thorough chiller as this one was; and
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833
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Besides, I would fain ask these tender constitutioned Ladies, why they should require more Cooling than their Mothers before them.
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a Pretence, and a piece of Art, for it is well known we have not had a more moderate Summer these many Years, so that it is certain the Heat they complain of cannot be in the Weather: Besides, I would fain ask these tender constitutioned Ladies, why they should require more
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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