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Webster 1913 Edition


Corroborant

Cor-rob′o-rant

(k?r-r?b′?-rant)
,
Adj.
[L.
corroborans
, p. pr. See
Corroborate
.]
Strengthening; supporting; corroborating.
Bacon.
Noun.
Anything which gives strength or support; a tonic.
The brain, with its proper
corroborants
, especially with sweet odors and with music.
Southey.

Webster 1828 Edition


Corroborant

CORROBORANT

,
Adj.
[See Corroborate.] Strengthening; having the power or quality of giving strength; as a corroborant medicine.

CORROBORANT

,
Noun.
A medicine that strengthens the human body when weak.

Definition 2024


corroborant

corroborant

English

Adjective

corroborant (comparative more corroborant, superlative most corroborant)

  1. strengthening; supporting; corroborating
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Noun

corroborant (plural corroborants)

  1. Anything that gives strength or support; a tonic.
    • 1778, William Lewis, The New Dispensatory (page 91)
      The sensible qualities of argentina promise no great virtue of this kind; for to the taste it discovers only a slight roughishness, from whence it may be presumed to be entitled to a place only among the milder corroborants.
    • Southey
      The brain, with its proper corroborants, especially with sweet odours and with music.


Catalan

Verb

corroborant

  1. present participle of corroborar

French

Verb

corroborant

  1. present participle of corroborer

Latin

Verb

corrōborant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of corrōborō