[ad. L. consolidāt-us, pa. pple. of consolidāre: see next. Partly treated as short for consolidated.] = CONSOLIDATED.
a. as pa. pple. (Now chiefly poetic.)
1531. Elyot, Gov., III. xxvi. Experience … whereby knowledge is ratified and (as I mought saye) consolidate.
1540. Act 32 Hen. VIII., c. 25. All maner tytles ben now conioyned, consolydate, vnited, and vested … in the Kinges moste royall persone.
1555. Eden, Decades, 211. A wateryshe nuryshement not well consolidate.
1642–7. H. More, Poems, 141. She hath consolidate Its tender limbs which earst did feebly bend.
1674. Scot. Grievances under Lauderdale, 25. To be consolidate into that malign meteor.
1842. Tennyson, Two Voices, 366. Tho’ all experience past became Consolidate in mind and frame.
1873. Mrs. H. King, Disciples, Overture, The strife of Races scarce consolidate.
† b. as adj. Obs. rare.
1638. Gen. Demands conc. Covenant, 7. Not any more as divided members, but as one consolidate lump.
