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noun

Costiveness n.

An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.

Inability to express one's self; stiffness. (Obs.) "A reverend disputant of the same costiveness in public elocution with myself."

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Etymology of 'Costiveness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... or running into rich pasture during hot weather; by lack of exercise and from costiveness. Usually attacks ...

— Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry • Pratt Food Co.

... unfavourable signs may be mentioned, a discoloration of the skin before the fourth day. This symptom was, indeed, almost always a fatal one. Obstinate vomiting and costiveness, haemorrhages from different parts of the body, unattended with an abatement of the symptoms, and vomiting of black matter, were very unfavourable; whilst a suppression of urine, agreeably to my experience, was always ...

— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various