corroborant

American  

[kuh-rob-er-uhnt] / kəˈrɒb ər ənt /

adjective

1. corroborating; confirming.

2. Archaic. strengthening; invigorating, as a medicine.

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noun

1. something that corroborates or strengthens.

2. Archaic. a strengthening medicine.

corroborant British  

/ kəˈrɒbərənt /

adjective

1. serving to corroborate

2. strengthening

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Other Word Forms

• uncorroborant
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of corroborant

1620–30; < Latin corrōborant- (stem of corrōborāns ) strengthening, present participle of corrōborāre. See corroborate, -ant

Example Sentences

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

From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, William

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

From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, William

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.

From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, William

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.

From Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I by Piozzi, Hester Lynch

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

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson