Construct

kon-strukt′, v.t. to build up: to compile: to put together the parts of a thing: to make: to compose.— adj. constructed.— adjs. Construct′able , Construct′ible , able to be constructed.— ns. Construct′er , Construct′or ; Construc′tion , the act of constructing: anything piled together, building: manner of forming: ( gram. ) the arrangement of words in a sentence: interpretation: meaning.— adjs. Construc′tional , pertaining to construction; Construct′ive , capable of constructing: not direct or expre ed, but inferred.— adv. Construct′ively .— ns. Construct′ivene , the faculty of constructing; Construct′ure .— Construct state , in Hebrew and other Semitic languages, the state of a noun depending on another noun, which in Aryan languages would be in the genitive case—e.g. House of God—house being in the construct state.— Bear a construction , to allow of a particular interpretation. [L. construĕre , -structum — con , struĕre , to build.]