单词 | corroborative |
释义 | corroborativeadj.n. A. adj. Having the quality of corroborating. 1. Strengthening, fortifying, invigorating. archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > restoratives, tonics, or stimulants > [adjective] > restorative comfortive1377 restaurativea1393 comfortativea1398 resumptivea1398 cordial?a1425 corroborative1583 analeptical1606 corroborant1626 analeptica1629 vivifying1665 roborant1768 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > restoratives, tonics, or stimulants > [adjective] > tonic corroborative1583 corroborant1626 tonic1684 the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > strengthening or confirmation of immaterial things > [adjective] strengthening1571 corroborative1711 substantiativea1834 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Fviiiv These sweet smels are bothe corroboratiue to the sences and confortatiue to the spirits. 1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. iv. 74 Corroboratiue and other medicines. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. ii. iii. 98 We shall endeavour to make appear: 1st. That Wit and Humour are corroborative of Religion, and promotive of true Faith. 1861 J. S. Mill Utilitarianism iii. 48 A complete web of corroborative association is woven round the social feeling by the powerful agency of the external sanctions. 2. Of a legal act, statement, evidence, etc.: Confirmatory. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > evidence > [adjective] > types of evidence corroborative1655 probative1678 nickinga1734 justifiable1755 onerative1827 corroboratory1883 sprung1966 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. xi. 204 A latter oath may be corroborative of the former, or constructive of a new obligation. 1750 Bp. W. Warburton Lett. (1809) 37 Anything explanatory or corroborative of what I say in the beginning of my book. 1765 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) I. vii. 172 This epitaph, corroborative of the tradition abovementioned. 1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xxii. 170 I will give corroborative testimony. 1880 W. E. Gladstone in 19th Cent. No. 38. 717 Whether the Homeric poems may not be a corroborative witness to the Book of Genesis. A strengthening or fortifying agent or measure; esp. in Medicine = corroborant adj. and n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > strengthening or confirmation of immaterial things > [noun] > a source or means of strengthinga1400 confirmator1485 stablishment1533 strengthening1571 strengthener1579 corroborative1601 strength1615 corroboration1670 re-enforcer1832 reinforcer1873 vertebration1884 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > restoratives, tonics, or stimulants > [noun] > tonic strengthening1571 strengthener1579 corroborative1601 fortification1655 roborant1661 corroborator1674 corroboratica1704 corroborant1738 bracer1740 tonic1799 invigorant1822 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxvi. vii. 246 The juice of Scordotis is holden to be a great corroborative of the stomacke. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. ix. ⁋20 The rite of confirmation is..intended by the Holy Ghost for a corroborative of baptismall grace. 1785 D. Low Chiropodologia 128 A little warm wine..to act as a corroborative. 1805 J. Foster Ess. ii. vi. 191 An efficacious corroborative to his inflexibility. Derivatives coˈrroboratively adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [adverb] > so as to confirm confirmingly1604 confirmatively1844 corroboratively1849 corroboratorily1867 1849 Fraser's Mag. 40 407 ‘It is true’, exclaimed Madame de Bohm, corroboratively. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 May 4 The anonymous painter and grainer, who writes..so corroboratively to ‘my dear Lord’ from America. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.n.1583 |
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