(1) - Costive (a.) Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding. (2) - Costive (a.) Reserved; formal; close; cold. (3) - Costive (a.) Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.
(1) - Costiveness (n.) Inability to express one's self; stiffness. (2) - Costiveness (n.) An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.