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See Solvable.

Solely. [Obs.] Spenser.

Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.

In an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner; wholly; positively.

The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.

An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense. "Government . . . granting absolution to the nation." Froude.

The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism. The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. Palfrey.

One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.

Pertaining to absolutism; absolutist.

Serving to absolve; absolving. "An absolutory sentence." Ayliffe.

That may be absolved.

Conferring absolution; absolutory.

of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen. Macaulay.

Absolving. [R.] Carlyle.

One who absolves. Macaulay.

Methyl phenyl ether, C6H5OCH3, got by distilling anisic acid or by the action of methide on potassium phenolate.

Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180º distant from the sun.

A solution used as a vehicle in applying bronze pigments. In addition to acetote, benzine, and a little pyroxylin, it contains amyl acetate, which gives it the odor of bananas.

Prolonged at the base, as certain leaves.

Guaiacol benzoate, used as an intestinal antiseptic and as a substitute for creosote in phthisis. It is a colorless crystalline pewder.