[f. prec. + -IST.] One who advocates consolidation.
1830. Vermont Gaz., 3 Aug., 1/1. Has she [Vermont] become so strongly wedded to the interests of her Webster, her Clay and her Everett, and other coalitionists and consolidationists, that she is never to be divorced from them?
1883. American, VI. 202. Would it not unite the consolidationist and the advocate of state rights?
