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	===Adjective===		===Adjective===
	~~'''~~Costive~~'''~~		====Costive====
	* 1. Constipated.		* 1. Constipated.
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			* 2. Informal: miserly, parsimonious
	# 2. Informal: miserly, parsimonious

	====Derived terms====		====Derived terms====
	* costively		* costively
	* costiveness		* costiveness

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	===Adjective===		===Adjective===
	~~====~~Costive~~====~~		'''Costive'''
	* 1. Constipated.		* 1. Constipated.
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	===Katakana Transliteration===		===Katakana Transliteration===
	* コスティブ (Ko-su-ti-bu)		* コスティブ (Ko-su-ti-bu)


	===Adjective===		===Adjective===
	Costive		====Costive====
			* 1. Constipated.
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	~~# See also: [[Constipated]]~~
	~~# Examples:~~		# 2. Informal: miserly, parsimonious
	#* Hollinghurst, US edition, page 346: "Melanie, who was used to Wani's 'costive' memos, and even to dressing up the gist of a letter in her own words, stuck out her tongue in concentration as she took down Nick's old-fashioned periods and perplexing semicolons."
	# Informal: miserly, parsimonious
	#* Example: Hugh Conlon, Nine Familiar Fables (2006), page 73: "Well, the shoemaker and his wife, Louise, may have been poor, needy, indigent, destitute, impecunious and impoverished — at least before the elves came along — but they had never been parsimonious, 'costive', miserly, penny-pinching or stinting. They were far from being avaricious, rapacious, mean or greedy. The shoemaker was uxorious about his wife, Louise, but he had never been usurious, even when he had money to lend..."

	====Derived terms====		====Derived terms====
	* costively		* costively
	* costiveness		* costiveness

MorAnime: Created page with "==English== ===Etymology=== From Old French costivé, past participle of costiver ("to constipate"), ultimately from Latin cōnstīpātus ("constipated"). Related to English constipate. ===Katakana Transliteration=== * コスティブ (Ko-su-ti-bu) ===Adjective=== Costive {{#ev:youtube|6ehp6-lKdHA|width=560|height=315}} # See also: Constipated # Examples: #* Hollinghurst, US edition, page 346: "Melanie, who was used to Wani's 'costive' memos, and even to..."

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Created page with "==English== ===Etymology=== From Old French *costivé*, past participle of *costiver* ("to constipate"), ultimately from Latin *cōnstīpātus* ("constipated"). Related to English *constipate*. ===Katakana Transliteration=== * コスティブ (Ko-su-ti-bu) ===Adjective=== Costive {{#ev:youtube|6ehp6-lKdHA|width=560|height=315}} # See also: Constipated # Examples: #* Hollinghurst, US edition, page 346: "Melanie, who was used to Wani's 'costive' memos, and even to..."

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==English==

===Etymology===
From Old French *costivé*, past participle of *costiver* ("to constipate"), ultimately from Latin *cōnstīpātus* ("constipated"). Related to English *constipate*.

===Katakana Transliteration===
* コスティブ (Ko-su-ti-bu)

===Adjective===
Costive
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# See also: [[Constipated]]
# Examples:
#* Hollinghurst, US edition, page 346: "Melanie, who was used to Wani's 'costive' memos, and even to dressing up the gist of a letter in her own words, stuck out her tongue in concentration as she took down Nick's old-fashioned periods and perplexing semicolons."
# Informal: miserly, parsimonious
#* Example: Hugh Conlon, *Nine Familiar Fables* (2006), page 73: "Well, the shoemaker and his wife, Louise, may have been poor, needy, indigent, destitute, impecunious and impoverished — at least before the elves came along — but they had never been parsimonious, 'costive', miserly, penny-pinching or stinting. They were far from being avaricious, rapacious, mean or greedy. The shoemaker was uxorious about his wife, Louise, but he had never been usurious, even when he had money to lend..."

====Derived terms====
* costively
* costiveness