costive

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If the Patient is full of blood, bleeding is necessary, and if Costive, a Dose of Manna, Senna, or any gentle Laxative, or a Clyster, should be given.

From An Account of the Extraordinary Medicinal Fluid, called Aether. by Turner, Matthew

And where do you think they should land, Mr. Costive? whisper me that.

From A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 by Thurston, Katherine Cecil

Ay, Sir, and if at any time Nature be too infirm, and he prove Costive, he has no more to do, but apply a Load-stone ad Anum.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague

Costive, kos′tiv, adj. having the motion of the bowels too slow: constipated.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various