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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.
CORROBORANT
,Noun.
Definition 2024
corroborant
corroborant
English
Adjective
corroborant (comparative more corroborant, superlative most corroborant)
- strengthening; supporting; corroborating
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
Noun
corroborant (plural corroborants)
- 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.
- 1778, William Lewis, The New Dispensatory (page 91)