corroborant

Definitions

1. Anything that gives strength or support; a tonic.
   archaic
2. Something that corroborates.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Next to this it is imported to comfort the stomach, and to cherish the root of man, that is to say⟳ the brain, with its proper corroborants, especially with sweet odours and with music.”

“As a scrupulous and faithful antiquary, Morales was accustomed to require⟳ evidence, and to investigate⟳ it; and for these he could find⟳ no other testimony than tradition and antiquity, which, as presumptive proofs, were strong corroborants of faith, but did not suffice of themselves.”

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