Word Meanings - ROBORATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To give strength or support to; to confirm. Fuller.
Related words: (words related to ROBORATE)
- 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. - 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 - 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. - 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.