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diˈssolvable, a.
Also -ible.
[f. dissolve v. + -able: substituted (in part) for dissoluble from L. type dissolūbilis.]
Capable of being dissolved; dissoluble.
1. Capable of being separated or reduced into its formative elements; decomposable.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg., For the substaunce seldom dyssoluable lyghtly it [the liver] oughte to haue medycyne somwhat styptyke. 1661E. Borroughs Plea to King conc. Quakers Ded. 1 You are but men..and your substance but dissolvable clay. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. iii. 86 Man that is even upon the intrinsick constitution of his nature dissolvible. Ibid. i. v. 112 A composition intrinsecally dissolvable. 1861L. L. Noble Icebergs 114 It [an iceberg] is as dissolvable as the clouds from which it originally fell.
2. Capable of being liquefied or melted; fusible; soluble. ? Obs.
1653H. More Antid. Ath. i. xi. (1712) 35 The Brains generally are easily dissolvable into a watery Consistence. 1668Wilkins Real Char. 169 Dissolvable, by Water, or by Fire. 1711Steele Spect. No. 95 ⁋3 Children, when crossed..how dissolvable they are into Tears. 1733Cheyne Eng. Malady i. v. §3 (1734) 38 Salts..hard, and dissolvible only by Water. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 461 All the metals, excepting platina and gold, are dissolvable by aqua fortis.
3. Of a connexion, union, society, etc.: Capable of being undone or having its existence put an end to; terminable, destructible.
1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 392 The Obligations of divine Commands are dissolvable only by divine Countermands. 1702[see dissoluble 4]. 1861Lowell E Pluribus Unum Prose Wks. 1890 V. 63 We are not a mere partnership, dissolvable..by mutual consent..but a nation.
Hence dissolvaˈbility (-ibility in Richardson 1836), diˈssolvableness (in Craig 1847). |