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Costive; constipated.

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.