The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation. Dissolutions of ancient amities. Shak.
Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting.
Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution. The dissolution of the compound. South.
The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership. Dissolution is the civil death of Parliament. Blackstone.
The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death. We expected Immediate dissolution. Milton.
The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction. A man of continual dissolution and thaw. Shak.
The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution. Bacon.
Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin. To make a present dissolution of the world. Hooker.
Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness. [Obs. or R.] Atterbury.
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