reconsolidationn.

?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Cj For these causes and reasons they do nat reconsolydate with trewe reconsolydacyon [Fr. vraye consolidation] after the desolucion of their seperatyng.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1956) VIII. 246 The re-consolidation of a scattered conscience.

1722 Misc. Ess. Rheumatism, Gout & Stone 8 All these Particulars are manifest from the first Formation of the Bones in Fœtus's, from their Increase, from the Manner of the Reconsolidation of broken Bones.

1802 J. Playfair Illustr. Huttonian Theory 503 At the same time subject to waste above the surface of the sea, and re-consolidation under it.

1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. i. 44 The late reconsolidation of Italy.

1906 Science 22 June 930 In the decomposition of the igneous rocks, and the reconsolidation of the dentrital products, the new rocks would consist of about five per cent. limestones, fifteen per cent. sandstones and eighty per cent. silicates.

1986 New Statesman 14 Mar. 17/1 The cowardice of Munich and collaboration of Vichy after 1936, the reconsolidation of Gaullism and 13 more years of right-wing rule after 1968.

2002 J. Keefe & R. Batt in Collective Bargaining vii. 263 Corporate mergers and acquisitions have led to the reconsolidation of the industry into a handful of dominant integrated carriers.