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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



... Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York Railroad Company, and the New York corporation, the Pennsylvania, New York and Long Island Railroad Company. These organizations were completed early in 1902. Subsequently, after the tunnels had been joined under the North River, the companies were consolidated, on June 26th, 1907, and thereby formed the present company under the name of the Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad Company, a corporation ...
— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 • Charles W. Raymond
... after Pentecost, the green weeks of the time of Pilgrimage, and stopped at the last feast, at the Sunday after the Octave of All Saints, at the Dedication of Churches which the "Coelestis Urbs" incensed, old stanzas of which the ruins were badly consolidated by the architects of Urban VIII., old jewels, on which the troubled water slept and was reanimated ...
— En Route • J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
... you and 'me care for his carryin's on? We can get on heaps better without him than he can without Me! The Consolidated'll jump down my throat—" ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... was granted to the Rev. Dr. Willis, who had been instrumental in restoring his majesty's intellects; the speakers salary was increased from L3000 to L6000; and the family of Penn had a perpetual grant of L4000 per annum bestowed upon them out of the consolidated fund, for the losses they had sustained during the revolt ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
... established in 1924 when the records of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Leavenworth Penitentiary Bureau were consolidated in Washington, D.C. The original collection of only 810,000 fingerprint cards has expanded into many millions. The establishment of the FBI Identification Division resulted from the fact that police officials of the Nation saw the need for a centralized ...
— The Science of Fingerprints - Classification and Uses • Federal Bureau of Investigation


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