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verb

Consolidate v. t. (past & past part. consolidated; pres. part. consolidating)

1.

To make solid; to unite or press together into a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm. "He fixed and consolidated the earth."

2.

To unite, as various particulars, into one mass or body; to bring together in close union; to combine; as, to consolidate the armies of the republic. "Consolidating numbers into unity."

3.

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

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

Consolidate 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."

Consolidated past part., adj.

1.

Made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified. "The Aggregate Fund... consisted of a great variety of taxes and surpluses of taxes and duties which were (in 1715) consolidated." "A mass of partially consolidated mud."

2.

(Bot.) Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. "Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found."

The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787) three public funds (the Aggregate Fund, the General Fund, and the South Sea Fund). In 1816, the larger part of the revenues of Great Britian and Ireland was assigned to what has been known as the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, out of which are paid the interest of the national debt, the salaries of the civil list, etc.

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"Consolidated" Quotes from Famous Books

... Kheyr-ed-Din was once more in the ascendant. Not only had he crushed out the incipient mutiny of Venalcadi and taken his life, but he had consolidated his power by the taking of the Penon d'Alger. He celebrated this occasion in the most practical manner possible: a stop was put to the indiscriminate massacre of the garrison, and five hundred of the Spaniards were captured alive; it was their dreary fate to pull ...

— Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean • E. Hamilton Currey

... of the country most of the public lands have been sold, and the registers and receivers have very little to do. It is a subject worthy of inquiry whether in many cases two or more districts may not be consolidated and the number of persons employed in this business considerably reduced. Indeed, the time will come when it will be the true policy of the General Government, as to some of the States, to transfer to them for a reasonable equivalent all the refuse and unsold ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 2 (of 2) of Volume 3: Martin Van Buren • James D. Richardson

... all appearance, was consolidated; and he now began, without disguise, to advance the two great objects which were dearest to his heart—the restoration of the Catholic religion, and the imposition of a despotic yoke. He wished to be, like Louis XIV., a despotic and absolute prince; ...

— A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon - For the Use of Schools and Colleges • John Lord

... were never tired of describing the strange, impressive personality of Tomlinson, the great dominating character of the newest and highest finance. From the moment when the interim prospectus of the Erie Auriferous Consolidated had broken like a tidal wave over Stock Exchange circles, the picture of Tomlinson, the sleeping shareholder of uncomputed millions, had filled the imagination of every dreamer ...

— Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich • Stephen Leacock

... 1500 the French monarchy was largely consolidated territorially and politically. It had been a slow and painful process, for long ago in 987, when Hugh Capet came to the throne, the France of his day was hardly more than the neighborhood of Paris, and it had taken five full centuries to unite the petty feudal divisions of the country ...

— A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. • Carlton J. H. Hayes

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