Capable of constructing, or of being employed in construction; formative; shaping.Relating or pertaining to the act or process of construction; of the nature of construction.Affirmative; inferring a result from a rule and the subsumption of a case under the rule: applied to arguments.Deduced by construction or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred; imputed, in contradistinction to actual: applied, in law, to that which amounts in the eye of the law to an act, irrespective of whether it was really and intentionally performed.