ppl. a. [f. prec.]
† 1. Pressed close together, condensed. Obs.
1647. H. More, Song of Soul, I. I. xxviii. Sense cannot … penetrate the crusty fence Of constipated matter close compresse.
2. Of or in reference to the bowels: Confined, rendered costive.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, § 309. Beware that the bely be not constupated or costiue.
1849. Claridge, Cold Water & Friction-cure (1869), 165. Digestion improved; no longer constipated.
