Encostive
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- costive: constipated
- encaustum: (Latin) purple-red ink
- encaustic: (adj) having the colours burned in; (n) an ancient method of painting in melted wax
- cost: a term from economics, implying that Shem writes for money
- does encostive ink mean "ink made from shit"? because this is clearly a reference to the haunted inkbottle image from Chapter I.vii where Shem does just that.
