Costive [adjective]
Definition of Costive:
stingy
Opposite/Antonyms of Costive:
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Sentence/Example of Costive:
I finds un fine to hunt with, and 'tis not so costive as the others.
The pulse is small, feeble and frequent, and the bowels costive.
I was of a costive, dyspeptic habit, which has been entirely removed.
All these facts have been proved before your Lordships by costive and unwilling witnesses.
As he was costive, pills of aloes and steel were ordered to be taken occasionally.
On the 15th, being costive, she took a jallap purge, and on the 24th she was discharged cured.
The hawk is costive, and opens her beak often, as if gasping for more air.
The stool is rather costive, especially with larger children; but diarrhoea may attend this disease.
I had a case of a calf that got very costive—so bad that it moaned dreadfully from pain.
The active circulation of the digestive fluids ceases, and the sufferer is said to be costive or to have chronic diarrhea.