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verb

Corroborate v. t. (past & past part. corroborated; pres. part. corroborating)

To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen. (Obs.) "As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby."

To make more certain; to confirm; to establish. "The concurrence of all corroborates the same truth."

adjective

Corroborate adj. Corroborated. (Obs.)

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... an opinion prevalent that robbers often go to a neighboring stock, kill off the bees first, and then take possession of the treasures. To corroborate this matter, I have never yet discovered one fact, although I have watched very closely. Whenever bees have had all their stores taken, at a period when nothing was to be had in the flowers, it is evident they must starve, and last but a day or two before they are gone. This would naturally ...

— Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained • M. Quinby

... men, as they stood, could hold communication with each other, and it soon became known that Mr Charlton had seen an opening some way ahead, through which he believed the ship would pass. To corroborate the truth of this report, he and the master were seen again ascending the rigging. The eyes of both the officers were fixed ahead, or rather over the port-bow. All were now again silent, looking at the captain, and ready to spring at a moment to obey the orders he might give; ...

— Ben Hadden - or, Do Right Whatever Comes Of It • W.H.G. Kingston

... 3. We may corroborate the evidence of those two Fathers with that of Paulinus, who was secretary to St. Ambrose, and wrote his ...

— Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) • John Henry Newman

... echo, that out of the mouths of two witnesses its truths should be established. That other echo can only come from Nature. Hitherto its voice has been muffled. But now that Science has made the world around articulate, it speaks to Religion with a twofold purpose. In the first place it offers to corroborate Theology, in the second ...

— Natural Law in the Spiritual World • Henry Drummond

... to corroborate all I have said?" asked Hal, struck with the change in her, and feeling she was all ...

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