corroborant

corroborant
/keuh rob"euhr euhnt/, adj.
1. corroborating; confirming.
2. Archaic. strengthening; invigorating, as a medicine.
n.
3. something that corroborates or strengthens.
4. Archaic. a strengthening medicine.
[1620-30; < L corroborant- (s. of corroborans) strengthening, prp. of corroborare. See CORROBORATE, -ANT]

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