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Costive   Listen
adjective
Costive  adj.  
1.
Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.
2.
Reserved; formal; close; cold. (Obs.) "A costive brain." "Costive of laughter." "You must be frank, but without indiscretion; and close, but without being costive."
3.
Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding. (Obs.) "Clay in dry seasons is costive, hardening with the sun and wind."





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"Costive" Quotes from Famous Books



... OF THE BOWELS.—A costive state of the bowels is common in pregnancy; a mild laxative is therefore occasionally necessary. The mildest must be selected, as a strong purgative is highly improper, and even dangerous. Calomel ...
— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols


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