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undiˈssolved, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not dissolved by loosening, undoing, annulling, dismissing, etc.
1535Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 26 §15 Every suche celle shalbe..ondyssolvyd..as yf this Acte had never be made. 1598Drayton Heroical Ep. 23 b, By that firme and vndissolued knot, Betwixt the neighboring French, and bordering Scot. 1649Milton Eikon. v. 45 As necessity of affaires call'd them, so the same necessity should keep them undissolv'd, till that were fully satisfi'd. 1833Keble Serm. vi. (1848) 127 Those members of the Church also believe..the oaths and obligations..undissolved and indissoluble. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. I. 166 By the law he could not have formed a second engagement so long as the first was undissolved.
2. Not broken up; not dissolved by natural decay.
1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 54 [Andronicus' body] is yet there vndissolued to be seene. 1615Chapman Odyss. xii. 594 The mast torn down Tore her up piece-meal, and for me to drown Left little undissolved. 1759Johnson Rasselas xlvii, It is commonly supposed that the Egyptians believed the soul to live as long as the body continued undissolved.
3. Not reduced to a soft or liquid state; unmelted.
1674tr. Scheffer's Lapland iii. 8 The snows which as well in Summer as Winter continue undissolved. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 150/1 That which remains undissolv'd..is the acid or saline Part of the Sulphur. 1765A. Dickson Treat. Agric. (ed. 2) 377 Some things are digested..by some animals, that pass thro' others sound and undissolved. 1807T. Thomson Chem. (ed. 3) II. 461 The dissolved portion having the properties of a resin; the undissolved, of asphaltum. 1868Amer. Naturalist I. 39 Ice accumulates..during the winter, and lies undissolved until late in spring. |