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† roboˈration Obs.
Also 5 roboracion, 6 -acioun, -acyone.
[ad. med.L. rōborātio, noun of action f. rōborāre: see prec.]
Confirmation; strengthening; support; invigoration.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 193 Hit hade be sufficiaunte to the roboracion of a sentence if hit hade be seide ‘Pictagoras seide so’. 1473in Sheriffdoms of Lanark & Renfrew (Maitland Cl.) 194 In strenthnin and roboration of this present obligation. 1533Bellenden Livy i. xii. (S.T.S.) I. 70 To þe strenth & Roboracioun of all religioun and ordoure afore divisit. 1536Exhort. to North in Furniv. Ballads I. 306 The machabies beyng fewe in the comparason of ther enmys,..Zit, trustyng in gode, thai haid Roboracyone. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 54 This Lotion is commended, as of sufficient roboration to ballance the weakness of the Liver. |