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▪ I. consolidate, ppl. a.|kənˈsɒlɪdət|
[ad. L. consolidāt-us, pa. pple. of consolidāre: see next. Partly treated as short for consolidated.]
= consolidated. a. as pa. pple. (Now chiefly poetic.)
1531Elyot Gov. iii. xxvi, Experience..whereby knowledge is ratified and (as I mought saye) consolidate. 1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 25 All maner tytles ben now conioyned, consolydate, vnited, and vested..in the Kinges moste royall persone. 1555Eden Decades 211 A wateryshe nuryshement not well consolidate. 1642–7H. More Poems 141 She hath consolidate Its tender limbs which earst did feebly bend. c1674Scot. Grievances under Lauderdale 25 To be consolidate into that malign meteor. 1842Tennyson Two Voices 366 Tho' all experience past became Consolidate in mind and frame. 1873H. E. H. King Disciples Overture, The strife of Races scarce consolidate.
†b. as adj. Obs. rare.
1638Gen. Demands conc. Covenant 7 Not any more as divided members, but as one consolidate lump.
▪ II. consolidate, v.|kənˈsɒlɪdeɪt|
[f. L. consolidāt- ppl. stem of consolidāre, f. con- + solidāre to make firm or solid, f. solid-us solid.]
1. trans. To make solid; to form into a solid or compact mass; to solidify.
1653H. Cogan Diod. Sic. 2 The humor which is consolidated in the day by the power of the sun. 1700J. A. Astry tr. Saavedra-Faxardo II. 236 Melted Metals..afterwards consolidated. 1759Duhamel's Husb. i. xiii. (1762) 64 The former..consolidate the ground. 1885Sir N. Lindley in Law Rep. 15 Q.B. Div. 4 The metalling of the roads is better and more quickly consolidated by steam rollers.
2. To make firm or strong; to strengthen (now chiefly power, established systems, and the like).
c1540in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. ix. 223 The which [plaster] doith both consolidate and comforte the membre. 1639G. Daniel Ecclus. xxvi. 33 A vertuous woeman doth Consolidate Her husband. 1754Richardson Grandison (1781) II. iv. 69 My forgiveness..would consolidate his reconciliation with Sir Charles Grandison. 1759Symmer in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. 477 IV. 413 The late Successes..by Sea and Land..have consolidated the power of the Minister. 1839Thirlwall Greece II. 191 To aim rather at consolidating and securing his empire than at enlarging it. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 82 The English way of narrowing the mind and consolidating the social order.
3. To combine compactly into one mass, body, or connected whole (territories, estates, companies, administrations, commercial concerns, and the like; rarely, things material). spec.
b. To unite two parishes, benefices, or offices;
c. To unite the property and superiority, or the property and occupancy of land in the same person.
1511–2Act 3 Hen. VIII, c. 17 §14 To annexe, appropre, unitye, and consolidate the forseid Churche, Parsonage and Glebe-landes. 1712Prideaux Direct. Ch.-wardens (ed. 4) 60 When two Churches are consolidated, the Rates..are still to be separate as before. 1786W. Thomson Watson's Philip III, vi. (1839) 365 The duke of Feria..consolidated the territories of both branches of the Austrian race into one extensive and mighty empire. 1816J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 11 When the iron is required to be doubled, or two or more pieces consolidated. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) V. 201 The legal existence of a woman..during her marriage..is incorporated or consolidated into that of her husband. 1861W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 222 The proprietor must..consolidate the two estates of property and superiority. 1870Daily News 11 Feb., The telegraphs have not only been transferred, but consolidated.
†4. spec. To cause (the sides of a wound, the parts in a rupture or fracture) to unite or grow together, and so to heal. Obs.
1563T. Gale Antidot. ii. 48 To make fleshe growe in woundes and to consolidate and heale them. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 148 The Brains of a Dog in Lint and Wool laid to a mans broken bones..doth consolidate and joyn them together again. 1767Gooch Treat. Wounds I. 364 Endeavouring to stop the effusion of blood, and consolidate the vessels. a1788Pott Chirurg. Wks. II. 46 Consolidating the parts supposed to be broken or torn.
†b. absol. Obs.
1656Ridgley Pract. Physick 39 We must consolidate with Syrup of Comfrey. Ibid. 72 Congelation requires Dissolvers; Ruptures, means that consolidate.
5. To unite or combine in one comprehensive statute (a number of distinct statutes, laws, or acts bearing upon the same subject).
1817Parl. Debates 778 A bill to amend and consolidate the different acts for regulating the residence of the clergy. 1858L. Bucher in Philol. Soc. Trans. 54 To consolidate means to sum up in one statute the enactments of many others. 1864Burton Scot Abr. II. i. 110 Employed in editing and consolidating the Scottish Acts.
6. To unite (several items of revenue) into one fund, applicable to certain purposes collectively; to combine a number of claims on the public exchequer or similar debts into one stock.
1753[see consolidated ppl. a. 1 b]. 1785Burke Sp. Nabob Arcot's Debts Wks. IV. 250 It is probably the first debt ever assuming the title of consolidation, that did not express what the amount of the sum consolidated was. 1819Rees Cycl. s.v. Funds (L.), It consisted of a great variety of taxes and duties which were in that year consolidated. 1845McCulloch Taxation ii. v. (1852) 237 The customs duties were again consolidated in 1825 by the act 6 Geo. IV. cap. 111.
7. intr. (for refl.).
a. To become solid or firm.
b. To combine or unite solidly or compactly.
†c. To grow together as the parts of a wound or fracture (obs.).
1626Bacon Sylva §785 Hurts and ulcers of the head require it not..dryness maketh them more apt to consolidate. 1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 1 Those tender limbs began to consolidate and knit together. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. xxiii. (ed. 3) 166 They unite, they consolidate, these little Atoms cohere. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey) s.v., Surgeons..say, The Parts begin to consolidate, i.e. to joyn together in one Piece. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) 121 These small weights have no effect at all until they consolidate, and by their number grow into a great one. 1885Lyell's Elem. Geol. xxix. 470 It being assumed that columnar trap has consolidated from a fluid state. |