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Consolidated   /kənsˈɑlədˌeɪtəd/   Listen
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



... Third Beading of the Consolidated Fund Bill Sir JOHN SIMON renewed his attack upon the Military Service Bill. The tribunals, he declared, were disregarding the appeal of the widow's only son; the Yellow Form, of which the late Home Secretary takes the same jaundiced view as he did of the Yellow Press, was being sent out indiscriminately ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916 • Various
... frail; and they are so, because they rest not on a mind consolidated by principles, and a heart glowing like a furnace with corresponding feelings. When resting on such a mind and heart, resolutions are not ...
— The Faithful Steward - Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character • Sereno D. Clark
... Quebec each of the Twenty-four Senators representing that Province shall be appointed for One of the Twenty-four Electoral Divisions of Lower Canada specified in Schedule A. to Chapter One of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada. ...
— The British North America Act, 1867 • Anonymous
... the duke of Ku, king Wan's son, and was intended by him for the benefit of his nephew, the young king Khang. Wan, it must be borne in mind, was never actually king of China. He laid the foundations of the kingly power, which was established by his son king W, and consolidated by the duke of Ku. The title of king was given to him and to others by the duke, according to the view of filial piety, that has been referred to ...
— The Shih King • James Legge
... CHRISTIANITY. It was the great civilizing and unifying work of the Roman State that paved the way for the next great contribution to the foundations of the structure of our modern civilization—the contribution of Christianity. Had Italy never been consolidated; had the barbarian tribes to the north never been conquered and Romanized; had Spain and Africa and the eastern Mediterranean never known the rule of Rome; had the Latin language never become the speech of the then civilized ...
— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY


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