(verb) : sŏlĭdo, āvi, ātum, 1, 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).
* 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.
* Trop.
* 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.
* To unite: viro uxorem unius corporis compage,Lact. Epit. 6.
* To correct: rationes, Ps.-Ascon. ap. Cic. Verr. 1, 36.