Associations to the word «Costive»

Wiktionary

COSTIVE, adjective. Constipated
COSTIVE, adjective. Miserly, parsimonious

Dictionary definition

COSTIVE, adjective. Retarding evacuation of feces; binding; constipating.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne