COALESCE, verb intransitive
1. To grow together; to unite, as separate bodies, or separate parts, into one body, as separate bones in an infant, or the fingers or toes.
2. To unite and adhere in one body or mass, by spontaneous approximation or attraction; as, vapors coalesce
3. To unite in society, in a more general sense,
The Jews were incapable of coalescing with other nations.