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dissoluble, a.|ˈdɪsəljuːb(ə)l, dɪˈsɒljuːb(ə)l|
[ad. L. dissolūbil-is that may be dissolved, f. dissolvĕre to dissolve: cf. F. dissoluble (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Capable of being dissolved.
1. Capable of being separated into elements or atoms; decomposable, disintegrable; capable of being destroyed by complete decomposition.
1534More Treat. Passion Wks. 1285/1 The body being made of the earth, and mixte wyth other elementes, was of nature dyssoluble and mortall. 1665Hooke Microgr. 105 Volatil sulphureous parts of dissoluble or combustible bodies. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 314 Making the soul compounded, dissoluble, and perishable. 1839J. H. Newman Par. Serm. IV. xii. 218 That which is material is dissoluble. 1868Tennyson Lucretius 115 How then should the Gods Being atomic not be dissoluble?
†2. Capable of being dissolved in a liquid; soluble. Obs.
1641French Distill. v. (1651) 165 The water..carryeth along with it some of the dissoluble parts of the mine. 1769E. Bancroft Guiana 74 A yellowish gum, dissoluble in an aqueous menstruum. 1809Pearson in Phil. Trans. XCIX. 339 That the whole of this oxide is not dissoluble in the acid.
3. Of a chain, knot, or anything that binds: Capable of being loosened or unfastened (see dissolve 5); usually fig. of a ‘tie’, connexion, etc.: Capable of being undone (see dissolve 10).
c1600Swinburne Spousals (1686) 225 The same Spousals were..dissoluble by occasion of Fornication. a1639Marmion Antiquary i. Dram. Wks. (1875) 205 If I stand link'd unto you, The Gordian knot were less dissoluble. 1645Milton Tetrach. (1851) 170 That Mariage is indissoluble, is not Catholickly true; wee know it dissoluble for Adultery. 1803Wordsw. Depart. fr. Grasmere 2 The gentlest Shade that walked Elysian plains Might sometimes covet dissoluble chains. 1878Seeley Stein I. 209 The connexion of Austria with Germany was..far less easily dissoluble.
4. That may be dissolved, as an assembly or society.
1642in Clarendon Hist. Reb. v. §289 Did not the people that sent them look upon them as a body but temporary, and dissoluble [ed. 1702 dissolvable] at his majesty's pleasure? |