Costive vs Styptic - What's the difference?
costive | styptic | Related terms |
constipated
miserly, parsimonious
Bringing about contraction of tissues; harsh, raw, austere.
* 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 328:
Specifically, that stops bleeding.
* 1973 , (Nicholas Monsarrat), The Kapillan of Malta :
* 1959 , (Daniel Keyes), Flowers for Algernon :
A substance used for styptic results.
* 1876 , Henry Beasley, The Book of Prescriptions
* 1889 , John Barclay Biddle, Materia Medica and Therapeutics: For Physicians and Students
* 1990 , A. L. Tommie Bass et al., Herbal Medicine Past and Present
Costive is a related term of styptic.
As adjectives the difference between costive and styptic
is that costive is constipated while styptic is bringing about contraction of tissues; harsh, raw, austere.As a noun styptic is
a substance used for styptic results.costive
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Adjective
(head)Quotations
; constipated (figurative) * 2005 , , Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback 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.styptic
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Alternative forms
* styptick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Boyles turns to look over his shoulder, squinting into the styptic sun, and then flags a hand over his head.
- The growth on top was a scrubby plant, unknown anywhere else on Malta, which was believed to have styptic qualities – it could staunch bleeding when packed on top of a wound […].
- But I waited while he dabbed at the cut with styptic powder.
Noun
(en noun)- The powdered gum with resin is used as a styptic ; and the mucilage has been recommended as an application to burns.
- Externally, it is applied as a styptic , and in solution, of various strengths, as an astringent.
- Knowledge of puffball's use as a styptic and for hemorrhoids reached Bass through the popular tradition.