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.

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• 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.
• PRESSURE WIRES
  Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points.
• 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.