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corroborant

ADJECTIVE
  1. used of a medicine that is strengthening

How To Use corroborant In A Sentence

  • A dislocated wrist, unsuccessfuily set, occasioned advice from my surgeon, to try the mineral waters of Aix, in Provence, as a corroborant. Autobiography
  • 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
  • In Puebla the plant is used by midwives as a corroborant after childbirth.
  • 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. The Urth of the New Sun
  • Queen's bath in Somersetshire; it is purgative, not corroborant, they tell me; and its taste resembles Cheltenham water exactly. Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I
  • A group of writers, especially of writers who were in revolt against big business and the corruption of the trusts, were about to effect a combination and start what was to be called the _National Magazine_; for it was to be no less than that, a magazine embracing all America, to serve as a re-invigorant and re-corroborant for new national ideals ... really only a tilting against the evils of big combinations, in favour of the earlier and more impossible ideals of small business units -- the ideal of a bourgeois commercial honesty and individual effort that could no more be re-established than could the big shoe factory be broken up and returned to the shanty of the village shoemaker .... Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative
  • This makes it an excellent corroborant, strengthening also the ability of coordination and concentration.
  • They are extensively prescribed in some parts of the country in diarrhoea, and as a corroborant in dropsy. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
  • Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.
  • Emetica valide expufgant vifcera, nee vitae viribus adco funefta, folida corroborant; imprimis A Complete Collection of the Medical and Philosophical Works of John Fothergill
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