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Definition of Costive
1. Adjective. Retarding evacuation of feces; binding; constipating.
Definition of Costive
1. a. Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.
Definition of Costive
1. Adjective. constipated ¹
2. Adjective. miserly, parsimonious ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Costive
1. constipated [adj]
Medical Definition of Costive
1. Pertaining to or causing constipation. Origin: contraction from L. Constipo, to press together (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Costive
Literary usage of Costive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Washington Irving (1897)
"... the manner of DOCTOR 3 CHRISTOPHER costive. " Prick me Bull calf till he roars."
4 Fal»taff. The greatest' poet of our day, From State of Maine to ..."
2. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"... Or e'er to costive lapdog gave disease, 75 Which not the tears of brightest
eyes could Hear me, and touch Belinda with chagrin, That single act gives ..."
3. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1866)
"... or costive. "When the patient is debilitated and the stomach weak, it sometimes
disagrees ; it ought then to be given in small repeated doses, ..."
4. The Homoeopathic domestic medicine by Joseph Laurie (1883)
"appear costive, the administration of a few teaspoonfuls of warm and-water will
generally answer every purpose ; if it should fail to produce speedy relief, ..."
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