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† indiˈssolvable, a. (n.) Obs.
Also 7 -ible.
[in-3.]
Incapable of being dissolved.
1. Incapable of being disintegrated, destroyed, or abolished; = indissoluble 1.
1660R. Coke Justice Vind. 47 Mr. Hobbs outruns the Constable, and makes the King or Civitas..indissolvable by that power that made him. 1701Norris Ideal World ii. ii. 55 A substance really distinct from matter, must likewise of necessity be indissolvable. a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 300 They of no disagreeing Parts consist: Immortal, indissolvable abide, What has no parts, Time never can divide.
2. Insoluble in a liquid; = indissoluble 2.
1676Boyle Exper. Orig. Qualities ii. vii, We found it as indissolvable in aqua regis too. 1698Norris Pract. Disc. IV. 176 Like a Medicine wrapt up in an indissolvible Vehicle. 1774Westm. Mag. II. 315 The indissolvable earthy residuum.
b. Infusible; = indissoluble 2 b.
1650Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. i. (1658) 60 The softer veins of Chrystal remain indissolvable in scorching territories. 1684T. Burnet Th. Earth ii. 79 There is no terrestrial body indissolvable to fire.
3. Of a tie, connexion, obligation, etc.: = indissoluble 3.
1531Dial. on Laws Eng. i. xxvi. (1638) 47 That bond of Matrimony was indissolvable. 1649Bp. Reynolds Hosea vi. 63 There is a necessary and indissolvable dependence of all second causes upon the first. 1681J. Flavel Meth. Grace ii. 27 This [conjugal] union is not indissolvable, but may and must be broken by death. 1701Norris Ideal World i. ii. 67 The union of their ideas appears so indissolvible, that we find we have it not in our power to disunite them in our thoughts. 1788Lond. Mag. 429 There, indeed, friendships were happy and unions indissolvable.
4. Of an assembly, etc.; = indissoluble 4.
1643Cunning Plot to divide Parlt. 10 This Parliament..was..made indissolvable without its own consent.
5. Insoluble, inexplicable; = indissoluble 5.
1637Jackson 2nd Serm. 2 Chron. vi. 39–40 Wks. 1844 VI. 40 The unsearchable ways of God's wisdom, or his indissolvable contrivances of extraordinary success. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. ii. §9 There are not onely diseases incurable in Physick, but cases indissolvable in Laws.
b. as n. Something insoluble or inexplicable.
1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. v. 53 The composition of bodies, whether it be of divisibles or indivisibles, is a question which must be rank'd with the indissolvibles.
Hence † indissolvaˈbility, † indiˈssolvableness = indissolubility; † indiˈssolvably adv. = indissolubly.
1659Army's Plea pres. Practice 22 All that may be said with reference to the Parliament..the indissolvableness of them without their own consent. 1667Waterhouse Fire Lond. 135 They unite into an indissolvability of affection. 1673Lady's Call. i. v. ⁋67. 54 Only that he may the more indissolvably unite, yea incorporate himself with us. |