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adj. - Used of a medicine that is strengthening.

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Usage examples (6)
  • Emetica valide expufgant vifcera, nee vitae viribus adco funefta, folida corroborant; imprimis
  • They are extensively prescribed in some parts of the country in diarrhoea, and as a corroborant in dropsy.
  • Queen's bath in Somersetshire; it is purgative, not corroborant, they tell me; and its taste resembles Cheltenham water exactly.
  • A dislocated wrist, unsuccessfully set, occasioned advice from my surgeon, to try the mineral waters of Aix, in Provence, as a corroborant.
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