Word Meanings - BELLYBOUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Costive; constipated.
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- CONSTIPATE
To render costive; to cause constipation in. (more info) 1. To crowd or cram into a narrow compass; to press together or condense. Of cold the property is to condense and constipate. Bacon. 2. To stop by filling it, and preventing passage through - COSTIVE
constiper, L. constipare to press closely together, to cram; con- + stipare to press together, cram. See Stipulate, Stiff, and cf. 1. Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated. 2. Reserved; formal; - COSTIVELY
In a costive manner. - CONSTIPATION
1. Act of crowding anything into a less compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation. Fullness of matter, or a pretty close constipation . . . of its particles. Boyle. 2. A state of the bowels in which the evacuations - COSTIVENESS
1. An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation. 2. Inability to express one's self; stiffness. A reverend disputant of the same costiveness in public elocution with myself. Wakefield.