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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

... and other rocks are composed; if these materials were ejected in a granular or comminuted form, and in vast quantities by submarine volcanoes generated by the chemical action of these elements upon each other; and if, after being diffused by the currents of the ocean, and consolidated by its vast pressure, the underlying strata were baked and melted and crystallized into granite[361]—a very few centuries would suffice. Until these indispensable preliminaries are settled, geology can make no calculations ...

— Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith - Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity • Robert Patterson

... Burridge. He said nothing at first, pretending to believe that his quondam leadership was unimpaired. Again, there were those who, having followed the various branches of labor which Palmer eventually consolidated, viewed this growth with sullen and angry eyes. They still sided with Burridge, or pretended still to believe that he was the more important citizen of the two. In the course of time, however—a period of thirty years ...

— Twelve Men • Theodore Dreiser

... interest, has a mailing list of fifty-five thousand farmers. From six to twelve of these publications are issued each year. "University Farm Press News" reaches regularly six hundred papers in the state. "Rural School Agriculture," containing material especially adapted to the needs of the consolidated and rural schools, reaches practically every rural and consolidated school in the state each month. "The Visitor" is a special publication prepared for the use of the teachers of agriculture in the high schools of the state. The "Farmers' ...

— Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 • Various

... was regarded as one of the ablest edited Negro journals ever published. After several years of successful work for God and humanity, it consolidated with the ...

— Twentieth Century Negro Literature - Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating - to the American Negro • Various

... monopolies; it saved the enormous resources that were previously wasted in these constant drains; it put again the hoe, the spade, the tools of the artisan, into hands that had before been wielding the sword; and finally, it consolidated (and this was perhaps the most important effect) the jurisdiction of property. When Caesar invaded Gaul, the great landowners still cultivated cereals and textile plants but little; they put the greater part of their fortune into cattle, exactly because in that regime of continual war ...

— Characters and events of Roman History • Guglielmo Ferrero

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