costive
adjective
suffering from constipation; constipated.
costiveness
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a word derived from
costive.
Example Sentences
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There are some circumstances unconnected with disease of mind, which might dispose insane persons to costiveness.
From Observations on Insanity With Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by John Haslam
On August 3, 1797, he was in a very furious state; complained of costiveness, for which he took his ordinary quantity of opening physic, which operated as usual.
From Observations on Insanity With Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by John Haslam
They do some good by correcting the acidity of the stomach; but the animals are often affected with diarrhœa, or costiveness, loss of appetite, colic, and convulsions.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
Previous to the general exclusion of animal food from my diet, I was subject to inveterate costiveness; cases of which are now neither frequent nor severe.
From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
Yet the Professor adds that on the third day a costiveness came on, which was removed by giving each calf three ounces of Epsom salts.
From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Honor? Bourguignon
