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corroborant

[ kuh-rob-er-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. corroborating; confirming.
  2. Archaic. strengthening; invigorating, as a medicine.


noun

  1. something that corroborates or strengthens.
  2. Archaic. a strengthening medicine.

corroborant

/ əˈɒəəԳ /

adjective

  1. serving to corroborate
  2. strengthening
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ܲcǰ·Dzo·Գ adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of corroborant1

1620–30; < Latin ǰōǰԳ- (stem of ǰōǰԲ ) strengthening, present participle of ǰōǰ. See corroborate, -ant
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Example Sentences

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A dislocated wrist, unsuccessfully set, occasioned advice from my surgeon, to try the mineral waters of Aix, in Provence, as a corroborant.

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Our hot water here seems about the temperature of the Queen's bath in Somersetshire; it is purgative, not corroborant, they tell me; and its taste resembles Cheltenham water exactly.

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These qualities point out its use as a mild corroborant; but it has long been a stranger in practice, and is now omitted both by the London and Edinburgh Colleges.

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The Leaves.—It is a cooling gently restringent herb; and hence recommended in a lax state of the fibres as a corroborant.

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An infusion of them, used as tea, is recommended as a mild corroborant in nervous complaints.

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