DISSOLVE, dizzolv. L., to loose, to free.
1. To melt to liquefy to convert from a solid or fixed state to a fluid state, by means of heat or moisture.
To desolve by heat, is to loosen the parts of a solid body and render them fluid or easily movable. Thus ice is converted into water by dissolution.
To dissolve in a liquid, is to separate the parts of a solid substance, and cause them to mix with the fluid or to reduce a solid substance into minute parts which may be sustained in that fluid. Thus water dissolves salt and sugar.
2. To disunite to break to separate.
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness? 2 Peter 3 .
3. To loose to disunite.
Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved.
4. To loose the ties or bonds of any thing to destroy an connected system as, to dissolve a government to dissolve a corporation.
5. To loose to break as, to dissolve a league to dissolve the bonds of friendship.
6. To break up to cause to separate to put an end to as, to dissolve the parliament to dissolve an assembly.
7. To clear to solve to remove to dissipate, or to explain as, to dissolve doubts. We usually say, to solve doubts and difficulties.
8. To break to destroy as, to dissolve a charm, spell or enchantment.
9. To loosen or relax to make languid as dissolved in pleasure.
10. To waste away to consume to cause to vanish or perish.
Thou dissolvest my substance. Job 30 .
11. To annul to rescind as, to dissolve an injunction.
DISSOLVE, dizzolv.
1. To be melted to be converted from a solid to a fluid state as, sugar dissolves in water.
2. To sink away to lose strength and firmness.
3. To melt away in pleasure to become soft or languid.
4. To fall asunder to crumble to be broken. A government may dissolve by its own weight or extent.
5. To waste away to perish to be decomposed. Flesh dissolves by putrefaction.
6. To come to an end by a separation of parts.