Solidarity
(Sol`i*dar"i*ty) n. [F. solidarité, fr. solide. See Solid.] An entire union or consolidation of
interests and responsibilities; fellowship; community.
Solidarity [a word which we owe to the French Communists], signifies a fellowship in gain and loss, in
honor and dishonor, in victory and defeat, a being, so to speak, all in the same boat.
Trench.
The solidarity . . . of Breton and Welsh poetry.
M. Arnold. Solidary
(Sol"i*da*ry) a. Having community of interests and responsibilities.
Men are solidary, or copartners; and not isolated.
M. Arnold. Solidate
(Sol"i*date) v. t. [L. solidatus, p. p. of solidare. See Solder.] To make solid or firm. [Obs.]
Cowley.
Solidifiable
(So*lid"i*fi`a*ble) a. Capable of being solidified.
Solidification
(So*lid`i*fi*ca"tion) n. [Cf. F. solidification.] Act of solidifying, or state of being solidified.
Solidify
(So*lid"i*fy) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Solidified ; p. pr. & vb. n. Solidifying ] [Solid + -fy: cf. F. solidifier.]
To make solid or compact.
Every machine is a solidified mechanical theorem.
H. Spencer. Solidify
(So*lid"i*fy), v. i. To become solid; to harden.
Solidism
(Sol"id*ism) n. (Med.) The doctrine that refers all diseases to morbid changes of the solid
parts of the body. It rests on the view that the solids alone are endowed with vital properties, and can
receive the impression of agents tending to produce disease.
Solidist
(Sol"id*ist), n. (Med.) An advocate of, or believer in, solidism. Dunglison.
Solidity
(So*lid"i*ty) n. [L. soliditas: cf. F. solidité.]
1. The state or quality of being solid; density; consistency, — opposed to fluidity; compactness; fullness
of matter, — opposed to openness or hollowness; strength; soundness, — opposed to weakness or
instability; the primary quality or affection of matter by which its particles exclude or resist all others; hardness; massiveness.
That which hinders the approach of two bodies when they are moving one toward another, I call solidity.
Locke. 2. Moral firmness; soundness; strength; validity; truth; certainty; — as opposed to weakness or fallaciousness; as,
the solidity of arguments or reasoning; the solidity of principles, triuths, or opinions.
3. (Geom.) The solid contents of a body; volume; amount of inclosed space.
Syn. — Firmness; solidness; hardness; density; compactness; strength; soundness; validity; certainty.
Solidly
(Sol"id*ly) adv. In a solid manner; densely; compactly; firmly; truly.
Solidness
(Sol"id*ness), n.
1. State or quality of being solid; firmness; compactness; solidity, as of material bodies.
2. Soundness; strength; truth; validity, as of arguments, reasons, principles, and the like.
