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Word Meanings - ROBORATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To give strength or support to; to confirm. Fuller.

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  • SUPPORTABLE
    Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
  • SUPPORTATION
    Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
  • STRENGTHFUL
    Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston.
  • SUPPORTFUL
    Abounding with support. Chapman.
  • SUPPORTLESS
    Having no support. Milton.
  • STRENGTHENING
    That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster , a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.
  • CONFIRMEDLY
    With confirmation.
  • CONFIRMEE
    One to whom anuthing is confirmed.
  • STRENGTHENER
    One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. Sir W. Temple.
  • STRENGTH
    1. The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.
  • SUPPORTER
    A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
  • SUPPORT
    convey, in LL., to support, sustain; sub under + portare to carry. 1. To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an
  • STRENGTHNER
    See STRENGTHENER
  • SUPPORTMENT
    Support. Sir H. Wotton.
  • FULLERY
    The place or the works where the fulling of cloth is carried on.
  • STRENGTHY
    Having strength; strong.
  • CONFIRMEDNESS
    A fixed state.
  • CONFIRMER
    One who, or that which, confirms, establishes, or ratifies; one who corroborates. Shak.
  • STRENGTHING
    A stronghold.
  • CONFIRM
    To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3. Those which are thus confirmed are thereby supposed to be fit for admission to the sacrament. Hammond. Syn. -- To strengthen; corroborate; substantiate; establish; fix; ratify; settle;
  • FULLER
    One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
  • INSUPPORTABLE
    Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
  • UNSUPPORTABLE
    Insupportable; unendurable. -- Un`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Wilkins. -- Un`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
  • RECONFIRM
    To confirm anew. Clarendon.

 

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