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"text": "1779–81, Samuel Johnson, \"Abraham Cowley\" in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poet\nTruth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction."
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"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin noun forms"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "cōnstitūtus"
}
],
"glosses": [
"vocative singular of cōnstitūtus"
],
"links": [
[
"cōnstitūtus",
"constitutus#Latin"
]
],
"tags": [
"form-of",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
"word": "constitute"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "constitutes",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "constitutein",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "constitutet",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "constitutet",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"10": "constitutet",
"2": "verbs",
"3": "third-person singular simple present",
"4": "constitutes",
"5": "present participle",
"6": "constitutein",
"7": "simple past",
"8": "constitutet",
"9": "past participle",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "constitute (third-person singular simple present constitutes, present participle constitutein, simple past constitutet, past participle constitutet)",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "constitute (third-person singular simple present constitutes, present participle constitutein, simple past constitutet, past participle constitutet)",
"name": "sco-verb"
}
],
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Scots entries with incorrect language header",
"Scots lemmas",
"Scots verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To constitute."
],
"links": [
[
"constitute",
"constitute#English"
]
]
}
],
"word": "constitute"
}
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