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单词 corroborative
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corroborativeadj.n.

/kəˈrɒbərətɪv/
Etymology: < French corroboratif, -ive (Paré, 16th cent.), < Latin type *corrōborātīvus , < corrōborāt- participial stem: see -ive suffix.
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.
B. n.
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).
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