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The state or quality of being costive; constipation. quotations examples
The new cases prove that in habitual costiveness or inactivity of the bowels, galvanism is a more valuable remedy, and that its effects are permanent .
January 1822, Richard Reece [editor] "Letters of a Royal Physician, on Indigestion &c. &c.", in The Monthly Gazette of Health Volume 7
(obsolete) Inability to express oneself; stiffness. quotations
a reverend disputant of the same coftiveness in public elocution with myself
1792, Gilbert Wakefield, Memoirs of the Life of Gilbert Wakefield