[f. SOLIDIFY v. (see -ATION), or a. F. solidification.]

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  1.  The action or process of solidifying or becoming solid.

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1811.  A. T. Thomson, Lond. Disp. (1818), p. xxvii. The solidification of the water when it unites with the lime.

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1843.  R. J. Graves, Syst. Clin. Med., xx. 242. The diseased lung, whose specific gravity has been much increased by solidification.

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1880.  C. R. Markham, Peruv. Bark, 188. In the cooling and solidification of granite the quartz is the last mineral element to crystallise and become solid.

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  transf.  1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), IV. 273. Force [may be conceived] as the materializing or solidification of motion.

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  2.  Consolidation, concentration.

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1891.  Cycl. Temperance & Prohibition, 574/2. There was an increasing realization of the value of solidification and discipline.

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