Sólido, sólidas, pen. cor. solidáre, Virg.To make firme: to consolidate: to make sounde and massiue: to make whole and strong.Solidantur fracta. Pli. iun. Things broken are made whole.Spuma maris solidata cum limo. Plin. Facies solidata veneno. Lucan. A face strengthened wyth medicine againste pntrifaction.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
sŏlĭdo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [id.], to make firm, dense, or solid; to make whole or sound; to strengthen, fasten together (not ante-Aug., and for the most part only in the pass.; cf.: compono, reficio, stabilio). I.Lit.: (area) cretā solidanda, Verg. G. 1, 179: locus fistucationibus solidetur, Vitr. 7, 1: terra aëre, id. 2, 3 fin.: aedificia sine trabibus, Tac. A. 15, 43; cf. muri, id. H. 2, 19: ossa fracta, Plin. 28, 16, 65, 227; Plin. Ep. 8, 20, 4; cf.: hi (nervi) incisi solidantur, Plin. 11, 37, 88, 218; 24, 16, 95, 152: cartilago, Cels. 8, 6: fistulae stanno, Plin. 34, 17, 48, 160 et saep.—Poet.: facies solidata veneno, i. e.
against decay
, Luc. 8, 691.—II.Trop.A.To confirm, establish: rem Romanam, Aur. Vict. Caes. 33, 11: imperium Romanum ex diuturnā convulsione solidatum, Auct. Pan. ad Const. 1: illud etiam constitutione solidamus, ut, etc., establish, ordain, Cod. Th. 15, 9, 1.—B.To unite: viro uxorem unius corporis compage, Lact. Epit. 6.—C.To correct: rationes, Ps.-Ascon. ap. Cic. Verr. 1, 36.