Consolidate | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Con-sōl'i-dāte, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. CONSOLIDATED; p. pr. & vb. n. CONSOLIDATING.] [Lat. consolidare, consolidatum, from con and solidare, to make firm, from solidus, firm, solid; Fr. consolider, Pr., Sp., & Pg. consolidar, It. consolidare.]

Sense 1. To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm; to combine. He fixed and consolidated the earth above the waters. Burnet.

Sense 2. To unite, as various particulars, into one mass or body; as, to consolidate the forces of an army. “Consolidating numbers into unity.” Wordsworth.

Sense 3. (Surg.) To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound.

To consolidate benefices (Law), to combine them into one. — To consolidate bills (Legislative Bodies), to unite them into one.

Synonyms— To unite; combine; harden; compact; condense; compress.

Con-sŏl'i-dāte, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To grow firm and hard; to unite and become solid; as, moist clay consolidates by drying.

In hurts and ulcers of the head, dryness maketh them more apt to consolidate. Bacon.

Con-sŏl'i-date, a.

adjective

(44), a. [Lat. consolidatus, p. p. of consolidare.] Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated. [Rare.]

The brawns and sinews of his thighs not yet consolidate. Sir T. Elyot.