Part 3301

<blockquote><b>Dissolutions</b> of ancient amities. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>dissolution</b> of the compound. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership.</def>

<blockquote><b>Dissolution</b> is the civil death of Parliament. <i>Blackstone.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death.</def>

<blockquote>We expected Immediate <b>dissolution</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction.</def>

<blockquote>A man of continual <b>dissolution</b> and thaw. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution.</def>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin.</def>

<blockquote>To make a present <b>dissolution</b> of the world. <i>Hooker.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness.</def> <mark>[Obs. or R.]</mark>

<i>Atterbury.</i>

<h1>Dissolvability</h1> <Xpage=433>

<hw>Dis*solv`a*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Capacity of being dissolved; solubility.</def>

<i>Richardson.</i>

<h1>Dissolvable</h1> <Xpage=433>

<hw>Dis*solv"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Dissolve</er>, cf. <er>Dissoluble</er>.]</ety> <def>Capable of being dissolved, or separated into component parts; capable of being liquefied; soluble.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Dis*solv"a*ble*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<blockquote>Though everything which is compacted be in its own nature <b>dissolvable</b>. <i>Cudworth.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Such things as are not <b>dissolvable</b> by the moisture of the tongue. <i>Sir I. Newton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dissolvative</h1> <Xpage=433>

<hw>Dis*solv"a*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Having the power to dissolve anything; solvent.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Frampton.</i>

<h1>Dissolve</h1> <Xpage=433>

<hw>Dis*solve"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dissolved</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dissolving</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>dissolvere</ets>, <ets>dissolutum</ets>; <ets>dis-</ets> + <ets>solvere</ets> to loose, free. See <er>Solve</er>, and cf. <er>Dissolute</er>.]</ety>