costive
adjective
suffering from constipation; constipated.
costiveness
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a word derived from
costive.
Example Sentences
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The first is inflammation of the external coats of the intestines, accompanied by considerable fever, and usually costiveness.
The belly during distemper mostly appears tucked up and small; the intestines, even when costiveness exists, are seldom loaded, but all except the rectum may feel empty.
From The Dog by Dinks
Persons afflicted with headache should beware of costiveness: their drink should be diluting, and their feet and legs kept warm.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton
Nor was it certain, even then, whether his inconveniences,—for they hardly deserved the name of sufferings,—arose from his costiveness, or from the croakings of friends and his own awakened fears and anxieties.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
If the power of motion be lost suddenly, costiveness mostly exists; and if, on the other hand, it should be gradual, there may be diarrhœa, which will terminate in death.
From The Dog by Dinks
