Obstinate vs Obstipate - What's the difference?

As an adjective obstinate

is stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.

(medicine) to induce severe constipation through an intestinal blockage.

(en adjective)

Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.

* 1686 , , "That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence of a fort that is not in reason to be defended",

From this consideration it is that we have derived the custom, in times of war, to punish

Said of inanimate things not easily subdued or removed.

* 1927 , ,

Now it happened that Kasturbai had again begun getting haemorrhage, and the malady seemed to be obstinate .

* bloody-minded, persistent, stubborn, pertinacious * (not easily subdued) persistent, unrelenting, inexorable * See also

* obstinately * obstinateness

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(obstipat)

(medicine) To induce severe constipation through an intestinal blockage

(rare) To become or cause to become blocked up

*{{quote-book, 1926, , The Interpreter's House citation

, passage=Noisy, stuffy men smelling of tobacco smoke, their minds obstipated by clogged presumptions ! }}

*obstipation *obstipative