See corroborate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"(as a participle) Corroborated."
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"ref": "a. 1627 (date written), Francis Bacon, “Of the Advancement of Learning”, in James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, editors, The Works of Francis Bacon, […], volume III, London: Longman and Co.; […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 276:",
"text": "But how unjust this traducement is (if you will reduce things from popularity of opinion to measure of reason) may appear in that we see men are more curious what they put into a new vessel than into a vessel seasoned, and what mould they lay about a young plant than about a plant corroborate; […]",
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"Vigorous, grown strong."
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"(as a participial adjective) Vigorous, grown strong."
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