costive

ADJECTIVE
  1. retarding evacuation of feces; binding; constipating
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How To Use costive In A Sentence

  • The physician Hequet understood by slow bellies, that the Cretans were costive, which vitiated their blood, and rendered them ill-disposed and mischievous. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • Riding, as well as a sedentary life, encourages costiveness. 1760 diet revolution | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
  • As we may speak of the stages of a disease like consumption, so we may speak of these three conditions as different stages of one affliction, the worst being costiveness with its progressive self-poisoning by the products of intestinal decomposition. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
  • Yet although the writer pokes fun, he teases the verbally prolix, emotionally costive Huxley as much as he does the earnest Wilberforce.
  • We would expect people suffering from constipation or obstipation to pass as fairly well people for a time, but the same is not true of patients having the other condition, costiveness. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
  • What is most advisable in this respect is, to use such a diet and manner of living, as may prevent costiveness constipation. 1760 diet revolution | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
  • It is costive and hermetic and yet obsessed with changing the world.
  • During the exacerbation most are restless, and most are costive constipated, hence the relentless laxatives. Bedlam
  • The words constipation, obstipation and costiveness are often employed as if of exactly similar meaning, but it is well to let each stand for Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
  • Old milk, and especially when boiled, is liable to induce this kind of costiveness in some grown persons; which is probably owing to their not possessing sufficient gastric acid to curdle and digest it; for as both these processes require gastric acid, it follows, that a greater quantity of it is necessary, than in the digestion of other aliments, which do not previously require being curdled. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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