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constipated, ppl. a.|ˈkɒnstɪpeɪtɪd|
[f. prec.]
†1. Pressed close together, condensed. Obs.
1647H. More Song of Soul i. i. xxviii, Sense cannot..penetrate the crusty fence Of constipated matter close compresse.
2. a. Of or in reference to the bowels: Confined, rendered costive.
1547Boorde Brev. Health §309 Beware that the bely be not constupated or costiue. 1849R. T. Claridge Cold Water & Friction-cure (1869) 165 Digestion improved; no longer constipated.
b. fig.
1891‘Mark Twain’ Lett. to Publishers (1967) 277 You will now have to modify your instalment system to meet the emergency of a constipated purse. 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 177/1 Constipated, slow to part with money. 1967Economist 4 Feb. 423/2 So much evolutionary detail has had to be dealt with for the first time that the first half of the book makes rather constipated reading. |