constitutionally

From constitutional +‎ -ly.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɒnstɪˈt͡ʃuːʃənəli/, /kɒnstɪˈt͡ʃuːʃnəli/, /kɒnstɪˈt͡ʃuːʃənli/, /kɒnstɪˈtjuː-/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kɑnstəˈtuʃənəli/, /kɑnstəˈtuʃnəli/, /kɑnstəˈtuʃənli/, /kɑnstəˈtju-/

constitutionally (comparative more constitutionally, superlative most constitutionally)

1. Pertaining to one's bodily constitution; physically, physiologically.
   • 1997, Edward M. Hallowell, When You Worry About the Child You Love, page 162:

     These children are constitutionally sad. Other children, like Luke, develop depressive feelings out of the blue or in response to some mild stressor.

   • 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 246:

     The astonishing progress of science had made God quite irrelevant; it had caused human beings to focus so intently on the physical world that they would soon be constitutionally unable to take God seriously.

2. Pertaining to one's fundamental values or mental inclinations.
   • 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 421:

     The effect of this filtering of ideas through the convictions of a class which is constitutionally disposed to certain views is by no means confined to the masses.

3. In accordance with a political constitution.

   Antonym: unconstitutionally

   • 2023 August 19, Katelyn Polantz, “Legal scholars increasingly raise constitutional argument that Trump should be barred from presidency”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “In our view, on the basis of the public record, former President Donald J. Trump is constitutionally disqualified from again being President (or holding any other covered office) because of his role in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 election and the events leading to the January 6 attack,” law professors William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen wrote for the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.