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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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INSOLUBLENESS n.

The quality or state of being insoluble; insolubility. Boyle.

INSOLVABLE a. 3 definitions

Not solvable; insoluble; admitting no solution or explanation; as, an insolvable problem or difficulty. I. Watts.

INSOLVENCY n. 2 definitions

The condition of being insolvent; the state or condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is unable to pay his debts as they fall due, or in the usual course of trade and business; as, a merchant's insolvency.

INSOLVENT a. 4 definitions

Not solvent; not having sufficient estate to pay one's debts; unable to pay one's debts as they fall due, in the ordinary course of trade and business; as, in insolvent debtor.

Any of several isomeric iodine derivatives of the cresols, C6H3I(CH3)OH, esp. one, an odorless amorphous powder, used in medicine as a substitute for iodoform.

IRRESOLUBLE a. 2 definitions

Incapable of being dissolved or resolved into parts; insoluble. Boyle.

IRRESOLUBLENESS n.

The state or quality of being irresoluble; insolubility.

Not resolute; not decided or determined; wavering; given to doubt or irresolution. Weak and irresolute is man. Cowper.

IRRESOLUTION n.

Want of resolution; want of decision in purpose; a fluctuation of mind, as in doubt, or between hope and fear; irresoluteness; indecision; vacillation. Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness. Addison.…

IRRESOLVABILITY n.

The quality of being irresolvable; irresolvableness.

IRRESOLVABLE a.

Incapable of being resolved; not separable into component parts. Irresolvable nebulæ (Astron.), nebulæ of a cloudlike appearance, which have not yet been resolved by the telescope into stars. Sir W. Herschel.

IRRESOLVABLENESS n.

The quality or state of being irresolvable; irresolvability.

IRRESOLVEDLY adv.

Without settled determination; in a hesitating manner; doubtfully. [R.]

Capable of being isolated, or of being obtained in a pure state; as, gold is isolable.

ISOLATE v. 3 definitions

ched situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others. Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts. Bp. Warburton.

Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others. Isolated point of a curve. (Geom.) See Acnode.

ISOLATEDLY adv.

In an isolated manner.

The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness. Milman.

One who, or that which, isolates.

nt difference; as, ethane, ethylene, an acetylene, or their analogous compounds, form an isologous series.