corroborant
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Strengthening; having the power or quality of giving strength: as, a corroborant medicine.
- noun A medicine that produces strength and vigor; a tonic.
Examples
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I lifted my head, opened my eyes, and spat a stream of crystal fluid like no water of Urth's; it seemed not water at all, but a richer atmosphere, corroborant as the winds of Yesod.
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A dislocated wrist, unsuccessfully set, occasioned advice from my surgeon, to try the mineral waters of Aix, in Provence, as a corroborant.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1
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And this is a new corroborant of one among the noblest of intellectual truths, viz. that the books which please, are always books that, in one sense, benefit; and that the work which is largely and permanently popular -- which sways, moulds, and softens the universal heart -- cannot appeal to vulgar and unworthy passions (such appeals are never widely or long triumphant!); the delight it occasions is a proof of the moral it inspires.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832
Note
The word 'corroborant' comes from a Latin word meaning 'strengthening'.
