Affected by constipation; constipated. Obsolete.

Affected by, predisposed to, or characterized by retention of the faeces; = constipated, adj. 2a. Now chiefly historical.

Suffering from constipation. Cf. bound, adj.2 3.

That has the bowels full. Obsolete.

In past participle: Constipated. Obsolete. rare.

Confined in the bowels, costive. †Also of a cough: Tight, dry (obsolete).

= constipated, adj.

Of or in reference to the bowels: Confined, rendered costive.

Of a person, etc., the bowels: Costive. Obsolete.

Affected by or causing constipation; = costive, adj. 1. Also figurative.

constipated, costive.

Constipated. Cf. astringent, adj. 3. Obsolete. rare.

Medicine. Of the bowels: not moving, not having moved (move, v. 13c). Now rare.

Of the bowels: constipated.

Of the bowels: constipated. Obsolete. rare.

Applied spec. to fæces lodged in the intestine (cf. impaction, n. 2); also transferred, applied to (a part of) the intestine when so blocked.