constipative
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From constipate + -ive.
Adjective
[edit]constipative (comparative more constipative, superlative most constipative)
- Causing constipation.
- Antonym: laxative
- 1842, Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, translated by Caspar Bruchhausen, Enchiridion Medicum: Or, Manual of the Practice of Medicine, page 56:
- Ipecacuanha is more antispasmodic, less acrid, and more constipative; hence it is fitter for irritable persons, inclined to spasms, and affected with diarrhœa.