Word Meanings - CONSTIPATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
Additional info about word: 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 it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.
Related words: (words related to CONSTIPATE)
- CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - BACON
The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's - PREVENTATIVE
That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive. - BACONIAN
Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction. - CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté. - FILLIPEEN
See PHILOPENA - CROWD
1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas - FILLIBEG
A kilt. See Filibeg. - FILLETING
The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work. 2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively. - FILLER
One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling. 'T is mere filer, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter. Dryden. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer. - PRESSIROSTRAL
Of or pertaining to the pressirosters. - PREVENTABLE
Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases. - PRESSIVE
Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation. Bp. Hall. - PREVENTINGLY
So as to prevent or hinder. - PRESSGANG
See PRESS - PREVENT
1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow - NARROW-MINDED
Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n. - PRESSURAGE
1. Pressure. 2. The juice of the grape extracted by the press; also, a fee paid for the use of a wine press. - COMPASSABLE
Capable of being compassed or accomplished. Burke. - IMPREVENTABLE
Not preventable; invitable. - HOTPRESSED
Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t. - IMPREVENTABILITY
The state or quality of being impreventable. - HOTPRESS
To apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc. - SUPPRESSOR
One who suppresses. - INCOMPRESSIBLE
Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible. -- In`com*press"i*ble*ness, n. - INCOMPASSIONATE
Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n. - INSUPPRESSIBLE
That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv. - REPRESSIBLE
Capable of being repressed. - ESPRESSIVO
With expression.