Obs. or arch. [ad. L. corrōborāt-us, pa. pple. of corrōborāre: see next.] Strengthened, confirmed, corroborated.
a. as pa. pple. arch.
1532. Thynne, Chaucer’s Wks., Ded. Maynteyned, corroborate, and defended.
c. 1534. trans. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden), I. 112. That … the Ilond beinge corroberat it mighte strike a certaine terror into the adverse parte.
1607–12. Bacon, Ess., Custom & Educ. (Arb.), 366. There is noe trusting to the force of Nature … except it be corroborate by Custome.
1814. Southey, Roderick, XVII. 239. The sense Of duty, by the pride of self-controul Corroborate.
1878. Tennyson, Q. Mary, II. ii. His right came down to me, Corroborate by your Acts of Parliament.
† b. as adj. Obs.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 383. A more stable and corroborate concorde.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., I. iii. § 3. Men are more curious … what mould they lay about a young plant than about a plant corroborate.
