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Definition of the day : « costive »

  • adj stingy
  • adj constipated
Example sentences :
  • I finds un fine to hunt with, and 'tis not so costive as the others.
  • Extract from : « Left on the Labrador » by Dillon Wallace
  • He took no other medicine, except a little rhubarb when costive.
  • Extract from : « An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses » by William Withering
  • The stool may be normal or costive, but is very often diarrhoetic.
  • Extract from : « Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated » by Max Birnbaum
  • The hawk is costive, and opens her beak often, as if gasping for more air.
  • Extract from : « The Art and Practice of Hawking » by Edward B. Michell
  • As one says, "What is more offensive than the breath of a costive child?"
  • Extract from : « Plain Facts for Old and Young » by John Harvey Kellogg
  • Costive, kos′tiv, adj. having the motion of the bowels too slow: constipated.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) » by Various
  • If they are costive, put in a little melted lard, or some kind of inoffensive oil.
  • Extract from : « Soil Culture » by J. H. Walden
  • Next Day, the 21st, her Blood appeared very sizy, and she complained of having been costive for some Days.
  • Extract from : « An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany » by Donald Monro
  • As he was costive, pills of aloes and steel were ordered to be taken occasionally.
  • Extract from : « An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses » by William Withering
  • I was of a costive, dyspeptic habit, which has been entirely removed.
  • Extract from : « Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages » by William Andrus Alcott