Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-SOL'I-DATE, v.t. [It. consolidare; Fr. consolider; Sp. consolidar; con and L. solidus, solid. See Solid.]

1. To make solid; to unite or press together loose or separate parts, and form a compact mass; to harden or make dense and firm. He fixed and consolidated the earth above the waters. – Burnet.
2. To unite the parts of a broken bone or the lips of a wound, by means of applications. – Encyc.
3. To unite two parliamentary bills in one. – Johnson.
4. In law, to combine two benefices in one. – Encyc.