costive
Example Sentences
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Movies coiled up in other movies have a habit of becoming either costive or cute, but somehow Falardeau avoids the traps.
From The New Yorker ● May 5, 2017
His stories are carried along, too, by an exceptionally easygoing and seductive narrative voice, what the costive Henry James described as his acolyte’s enviable “flow.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2016
Yet at the same time there was something costive about Johns, in sharp contrast to the effusive generosity of Robert Rauschenberg's vision.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the patient is costive, Nux should be taken at night, until his bowels become regular.
From An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time by B. L. (Benjamin L.) Hill
In some cases a very furred tongue, sallow skin, and costive bowels indicate more active purgatives, which may be exhibited during the febrile stage.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
