corroborant
Americanadjective
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corroborating; confirming.
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Archaic. strengthening; invigorating, as a medicine.
noun
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something that corroborates or strengthens.
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Archaic. a strengthening medicine.
adjective
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serving to corroborate
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strengthening
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
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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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