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Costiveness   Listen
noun
Costiveness  n.  
1.
An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.
2.
Inability to express one's self; stiffness. (Obs.) "A reverend disputant of the same costiveness in public elocution with myself."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Costiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... nothing is better. Where it cannot be digested, ordinary bakers' bread boiled in water to soft pap is found to make a good substitute. This must not be boiled with milk unless where there is diarrhoea to be cured, as milk tends to produce bile and costiveness. Oatmeal jelly (see Food in Illness) is also a good substitute for biscuits ...
— Papers on Health • John Kirk



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