Pl. consols. In pl. An abbreviation of Consolidated Annuities, i e., the government securities of Great Britain: see CONSOLIDATED b. (The singular is used only attributively and in combination.)
1770. Placid Man, I. 115. Her head was as full with wealth, scrip, omnium, consols, and lord-mayors shews.
1770. Gentl. Mag., XL. 592. Prices of Stocks Dec., 3 … 3 per Cent Consol. 78, 4 per Cent Consol. 863/4. Ibid. (1783), LIII. I. 544. In the 3 per Cent. Consols.
1794. Mathias, Purs. Lit. (ed. 7), 340. Till with a pun old Caleb crown’d the whole, ‘Consols, and not philosophy, console.’
1826. Disraeli, Viv. Grey, IV. i. 140. There is nothing like a fall in Consols to bring the blood of our good people of England into cool order.
1863. P. Barry, Dockyard Econ., 38. The inscription of one’s name for Consols in the books of the Bank of England.
1871. Earle, Philol. Eng. Tongue (1880), § 371.
attrib. and Comb., as consol-holder, consol market.
1885. Pall Mall G., 18 Feb., 5/1. An idea in the Consol market.
1888. Spectator, 1 Dec., 1672. The Consol-holder is not a criminal, but only the owner of land.
