Verb

(allud)

To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion.

* 1597 , , Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity , Book V, Chapter xxix.3, 1841 ed., page 523:

These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.

* 1846 , George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2 , page 474

It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude .

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

, author=Robert L. Dorit , title=Rereading Darwin , volume=100, issue=1, page=23 , magazine= citation , passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}

Verb

(corroborat)

To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.

* I. Taylor

The concurrence of all corroborates the same truth.

To make strong; to strengthen.

* I. Watts

As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby.