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costive
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synonyms: parsimonious, penurious, hide-bound, ~niggerdly ???
tags: [pathosis]
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Definition:1. constipated2. miserly
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he allowed his bowels to ease themselves quietly as he read, reading still patiently that slight constipation of yesterday quite gone. Hope it’s not too big bring on piles again. No, just right. So. Ah! Costive. One tabloid of cascara sagrada.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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“Depends on whether Arthur’s dyspeptic this morning, I should reckon. If he’s made a good breakfast, the lad might get off with a whipping. But happen he’s costive or flatulent”—she made a moue of distaste—“the boy’ll lose an ear or a hand, most like.”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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In cases of all the more ordinary moral ailments, from simple lying, to homicidal mania, in cases again of tendency to hatred, malice, and uncharitableness; of atrophy or hypertrophy of the conscience, of costiveness or diarrhoea of the sympathetic instincts, &c., &c., our spiritual indigestion tabloids will afford unfailing and immediate relief.
Samuel Butler. Erewhon Revisited
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MAM. I know, sir;
You shall not need to fear me; I but come,
To have you confute this gentleman.
SUR. Who is,
Indeed, sir, somewhat costive of belief
Toward your stone; would not be gull'd.
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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With my cousin it’s just the same as with those costive authors who hatch out every fifteen years a one-act play or a sonnet. The sort of thing people call a little masterpiece, trifles that are perfect gems, in fact the one thing I loathe most in the world.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]
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