dissoluteadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈdɪsəl(j)uːt/, U.S.

/ˈdɪsəˌl(j)ut/

Etymology: < Latin dissolūtus loose, disconnected, past participle of dissolvĕre to loosen, disunite, dissolve v.; compare French dissolu. The appearance of the senses in English does not correspond with their original development in Latin.

A. adj.

†1. Having their connection or union dissolved; disconnected, disjoined, disunited. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > disjoining or disconnecting > disjoined, disunited, or disconnected

disjointc1420

sejointc1440

dissolute?1541

unjointed1561

disunited1562

disjoined1591

disjunct1599

disjointeda1643

disunite1642

disjuncted1657

unmortised1736

broken1819

disarticulated1834

disc1916

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [adjective] > disunited or separated

disincorporate1605

dissolute1651

discorporate1833

atomized1848

?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Cj Nature..wyl nat leue them [membres sparmatyf] thus dyssolute, reioyneth and knytteth them the best that she may.

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 3 It were requisite, that the..bones should neither be dissolute, and vnioyned nor yet altogether whole, and continuall.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 278 The part excommunicated is no longer a Church, but a dissolute number of individuall persons.

1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. vii. §10. 107 It is no longer a Court, or one Person, but a dissolute multitude without any supreme power.

†2. Relaxed, enfeebled, weak; wanting consistence or firmness of texture or temperament. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > [adjective]

wokec897

unstronga900

unmightyeOE

feeblec1175

strengthlessc1175

unwieldc1220

weaka1300

frailc1384

unwieldyc1386

unthendec1425

dissolutec1450

unsure?a1475

feyc1475

simple1477

unfirm1483

unsinewed?1541

wash1548

weakling1557

ladylike1566

silly1567

water weak1592

washya1631

wankle1686

foible1715

unmuscular1725

nerveless1792

wankly1795

shilpit1813

wankya1825

sinewless1829

weedy-looking1835

queachy1859

insubstantiala1861

paper-backed1888

weak-fleshed1967

the world > matter > constitution of matter > lack of density > [adjective] > loose texture

loosec1374

solutec1440

dissolute1607

lax1615

fuzzy1616

incompact1616

waterish1665

incompacted1680

uncompact1705

laxy1716

unconsolidated1802

hover1851

unpacked1855

uncompacted1863

c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. xlv But I be holpen of þe & inwardly enformed, I am made all leuke & dissolute.

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. x. iv. 189 You loose handes and dissolute knees ye shall be strengthened.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 442 The flesh of the Alzabo..is of a slender and dissolute substance.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iv. 120 This lax and dissolute consistency [of the blood]..makes it apt to dissolve into Serum.

1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. App. C p. xxviii Vital warmth..relaxing the rigid consolidating the dissolute, and giving cohesion to that which is about to sink down.

†3. Having the energies, attention, etc. relaxed; wanting firmness, strictness, or assiduity; loose, lax, slack, careless, negligent, remiss. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > indiligent or remiss

nesheOE

slackc897

undreigha1350

dissolutea1382

defaultyc1390

defaultive1398

remissivec1487

remissa1500

slakea1538

undiligent1564

unindustrious1599

discinct1604

unofficious1611

inindustriousa1631

indiligent1633

lax1812

remissful1836

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xix. 15 Slouthe sendeth in slep; and a dissolut [a1425 L.V. negligent] soule shal hungre.

c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 245 Now passyng besy, now dissolut, now ydil.

1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. iii, in Wks. (1851) I. 330 Neither the law was then cruel, neither yet the gospel is now dissolute for the greatness of forgiveness.

1589 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 188 Through meere dissolute negligence, shee [sc. a ship] perished vpon a sand.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxii. 214 To temper the mind least contrarie affections comming in place should make it too profuse and dissolute.

1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. (1630) 459 Alas, how cold..are our affections often? How dissolute our practice? How dull our memory?

†4.

a. Unrestrained in behaviour or deportment; not subject to proper restraint; loose, wanton. (In quot. 1620, Wasteful, lavish.) Obsolete (except as involved in sense A. 5).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > dissolute conduct > [adjective]

unkind1340

desolatec1386

unthrifty1388

virtueless1402

unvirtuous1432

dissolutec1475

castaway?1542

bastardlyc1567

regenerate1596

perdite1625

profligate1627

deperdit1641

profligated1652

abandoned1690

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [adjective] > specifically of persons

unsufferablea1387

unmeasurablec1405

immoderatec1450

inordinatec1450

dissolutec1475

excessive1586

extravagant1600

painful1749

unforbearing1820

c1475 J. Lydgate Stans Puer (Harl. 2251) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 26 Withe dissolute [Lamb. wantowne] laughters do thow non offence To-fore thy souerayn.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. GGiii^v What cause haste thou to be so dissolute and mery?

1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) i. xxvi. 118 This cattell is foolish and dissolute, easie to stray abroad hither and thither, contrarie vnto sheepe, which keepe together.

1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. iv A great deal of Goods..of all which the young man remained a dissolute Lord.

1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 45 A rude sort of men, without Laws, without Government, free and dissolute [L. liberum atque solutum].

1713 R. Steele in Guardian 14 Mar. 1/1 It is a certain Characteristick of a dissolute and ungovern'd Mind, to rail or speak disrespectfully of them.

b. Careless or lawless in style. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective] > incorrect

dissolute1566

licentious1589

vicious1589

incorrect1672

libertine1760

1566 T. Stapleton Returne Vntruthes Jewelles Replie Epist. Your maner of writing is..so Dissolut Loose and Negligent.

1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. (1630) 559 Either hee is too profound, or too plaine..too dissolute, or too exact.

1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity Pref., in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) Heroic with continued rhyme..was found too dissolute and wild.

1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. i. 1 A loose, and, if I may use the word, a dissolute kind of painting.

1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xvii. 184 The dissolute dulness of English Flamboyant.

5. That has thrown off the restraints of morality and virtue; lax in morals, loose-living; licentious, profligate, debauched. (Of persons, their actions, etc.) The current sense.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [adjective]

wild13..

desolatec1386

unthrifty1388

riotousc1405

resolute?a1475

palliard1484

dissolutea1513

royetous1526

sluttishc1555

rakehell1556

dissolutious1560

rakehelly1579

hell-raking1593

sportive1597

low1599

lavish1600

rakellyc1600

profligate1627

profligated1652

rantipole1660

abandoned1690

raking1696

rakish1696

dissipated1744

dissipating1818

outward1875

a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. i. sig. a.ii^v Dyssolute man, folowyng sensualyte.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxxij^v A woman geuen to carnall affection, and dissolute liuinge.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. iii. 181 Wee will yet haue more trickes with Falstaffe: his dissolute disease will scarse obey this medicine.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 150 Belial the dislolutest [sic] Spirit that fell, The sensuallest, and after Asmodai The fleshliest Incubus.

1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. i. 22 The many untimely Deaths occasioned by a dissolute Course of Life.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §1. 267 The nobles were as lawless and dissolute at home as they were greedy and cruel abroad.

6. There are many instances of dissolute for desolate (†dissolate), mostly scribal or typographical errors, sometimes perhaps owing to actual confusion.

ΚΠ

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xxxvi. i A place of dissolute darkenes.

a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) x. 68 Greece..more dissolute then any region of Europe subiect to the Turke.

1825 T. C. Croker Fairy Legends & Trad. S. Ireland I. 279 I got ashore, somehow or other..upon a dissolute island.

B. n.

A dissolute person, a profligate. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] > person

unthriftc1330

riotor1389

rioterc1440

palliard1484

skyrgalliarda1529

rakehellc1560

ranger1560

rakeshame1598

dissolute1608

pavement-beater1611

rakell1622

ranter1652

huzza1660

whorehopper1664

profligate1679

rakehellonian1692

rake1693

buck1725

blood1749

gay blade1750

have-at-alla1761

rakehellyc1768

hell-rake?1774

randan1779

rip1781

roué1781

hell-raker1816

tiger1827

raver1960

dog1994

1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. F4^v Did you euer conuerse with a more straunger dissolute?

1824 W. S. Landor Wks. (1846) I. 177/2 Half the dissolutes in the parish.

1838 R. Southey Poet's Pilgrimage ii. iii. x. (note) The homely but scriptural appellation..has been delicately softened down..Helen Maria Williams names her [Ch. of Rome] the Dissolute of Babylon.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dissolute
释义	dissoluteadj.n. Brit. /ˈdɪsəl(j)uːt/, U.S. /ˈdɪsəˌl(j)ut/ Etymology: < Latin dissolūtus loose, disconnected, past participle of dissolvĕre to loosen, disunite, dissolve v.; compare French dissolu. The appearance of the senses in English does not correspond with their original development in Latin. A. adj. †1. Having their connection or union dissolved; disconnected, disjoined, disunited. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > disjoining or disconnecting > disjoined, disunited, or disconnected disjointc1420 sejointc1440 dissolute?1541 unjointed1561 disunited1562 disjoined1591 disjunct1599 disjointeda1643 disunite1642 disjuncted1657 unmortised1736 broken1819 disarticulated1834 disc1916 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [adjective] > disunited or separated disincorporate1605 dissolute1651 discorporate1833 atomized1848 ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Cj Nature..wyl nat leue them [membres sparmatyf] thus dyssolute, reioyneth and knytteth them the best that she may. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 3 It were requisite, that the..bones should neither be dissolute, and vnioyned nor yet altogether whole, and continuall. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 278 The part excommunicated is no longer a Church, but a dissolute number of individuall persons. 1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. vii. §10. 107 It is no longer a Court, or one Person, but a dissolute multitude without any supreme power. †2. Relaxed, enfeebled, weak; wanting consistence or firmness of texture or temperament. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > [adjective] wokec897 unstronga900 unmightyeOE feeblec1175 strengthlessc1175 unwieldc1220 weaka1300 frailc1384 unwieldyc1386 unthendec1425 dissolutec1450 unsure?a1475 feyc1475 simple1477 unfirm1483 unsinewed?1541 wash1548 weakling1557 ladylike1566 silly1567 water weak1592 washya1631 wankle1686 foible1715 unmuscular1725 nerveless1792 wankly1795 shilpit1813 wankya1825 sinewless1829 weedy-looking1835 queachy1859 insubstantiala1861 paper-backed1888 weak-fleshed1967 the world > matter > constitution of matter > lack of density > [adjective] > loose texture loosec1374 solutec1440 dissolute1607 lax1615 fuzzy1616 incompact1616 waterish1665 incompacted1680 uncompact1705 laxy1716 unconsolidated1802 hover1851 unpacked1855 uncompacted1863 c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. xlv But I be holpen of þe & inwardly enformed, I am made all leuke & dissolute. 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. x. iv. 189 You loose handes and dissolute knees ye shall be strengthened. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 442 The flesh of the Alzabo..is of a slender and dissolute substance. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iv. 120 This lax and dissolute consistency [of the blood]..makes it apt to dissolve into Serum. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. App. C p. xxviii Vital warmth..relaxing the rigid consolidating the dissolute, and giving cohesion to that which is about to sink down. †3. Having the energies, attention, etc. relaxed; wanting firmness, strictness, or assiduity; loose, lax, slack, careless, negligent, remiss. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > indiligent or remiss nesheOE slackc897 undreigha1350 dissolutea1382 defaultyc1390 defaultive1398 remissivec1487 remissa1500 slakea1538 undiligent1564 unindustrious1599 discinct1604 unofficious1611 inindustriousa1631 indiligent1633 lax1812 remissful1836 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xix. 15 Slouthe sendeth in slep; and a dissolut [a1425 L.V. negligent] soule shal hungre. c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 245 Now passyng besy, now dissolut, now ydil. 1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. iii, in Wks. (1851) I. 330 Neither the law was then cruel, neither yet the gospel is now dissolute for the greatness of forgiveness. 1589 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 188 Through meere dissolute negligence, shee [sc. a ship] perished vpon a sand. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxii. 214 To temper the mind least contrarie affections comming in place should make it too profuse and dissolute. 1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. (1630) 459 Alas, how cold..are our affections often? How dissolute our practice? How dull our memory? †4. a. Unrestrained in behaviour or deportment; not subject to proper restraint; loose, wanton. (In quot. 1620, Wasteful, lavish.) Obsolete (except as involved in sense A. 5). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > dissolute conduct > [adjective] unkind1340 desolatec1386 unthrifty1388 virtueless1402 unvirtuous1432 dissolutec1475 castaway?1542 bastardlyc1567 regenerate1596 perdite1625 profligate1627 deperdit1641 profligated1652 abandoned1690 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [adjective] > specifically of persons unsufferablea1387 unmeasurablec1405 immoderatec1450 inordinatec1450 dissolutec1475 excessive1586 extravagant1600 painful1749 unforbearing1820 c1475 J. Lydgate Stans Puer (Harl. 2251) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 26 Withe dissolute [Lamb. wantowne] laughters do thow non offence To-fore thy souerayn. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. GGiii^v What cause haste thou to be so dissolute and mery? 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) i. xxvi. 118 This cattell is foolish and dissolute, easie to stray abroad hither and thither, contrarie vnto sheepe, which keepe together. 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. iv A great deal of Goods..of all which the young man remained a dissolute Lord. 1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 45 A rude sort of men, without Laws, without Government, free and dissolute [L. liberum atque solutum]. 1713 R. Steele in Guardian 14 Mar. 1/1 It is a certain Characteristick of a dissolute and ungovern'd Mind, to rail or speak disrespectfully of them. b. Careless or lawless in style. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective] > incorrect dissolute1566 licentious1589 vicious1589 incorrect1672 libertine1760 1566 T. Stapleton Returne Vntruthes Jewelles Replie Epist. Your maner of writing is..so Dissolut Loose and Negligent. 1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. (1630) 559 Either hee is too profound, or too plaine..too dissolute, or too exact. 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity Pref., in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) Heroic with continued rhyme..was found too dissolute and wild. 1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. i. 1 A loose, and, if I may use the word, a dissolute kind of painting. 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xvii. 184 The dissolute dulness of English Flamboyant. 5. That has thrown off the restraints of morality and virtue; lax in morals, loose-living; licentious, profligate, debauched. (Of persons, their actions, etc.) The current sense. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [adjective] wild13.. desolatec1386 unthrifty1388 riotousc1405 resolute?a1475 palliard1484 dissolutea1513 royetous1526 sluttishc1555 rakehell1556 dissolutious1560 rakehelly1579 hell-raking1593 sportive1597 low1599 lavish1600 rakellyc1600 profligate1627 profligated1652 rantipole1660 abandoned1690 raking1696 rakish1696 dissipated1744 dissipating1818 outward1875 a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. i. sig. a.ii^v Dyssolute man, folowyng sensualyte. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxxij^v A woman geuen to carnall affection, and dissolute liuinge. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. iii. 181 Wee will yet haue more trickes with Falstaffe: his dissolute disease will scarse obey this medicine. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 150 Belial the dislolutest [sic] Spirit that fell, The sensuallest, and after Asmodai The fleshliest Incubus. View more context for this quotation 1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. i. 22 The many untimely Deaths occasioned by a dissolute Course of Life. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §1. 267 The nobles were as lawless and dissolute at home as they were greedy and cruel abroad. 6. There are many instances of dissolute for desolate (†dissolate), mostly scribal or typographical errors, sometimes perhaps owing to actual confusion. ΚΠ 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xxxvi. i A place of dissolute darkenes. a1613 E. Brerewood Enq. Langs. & Relig. (1614) x. 68 Greece..more dissolute then any region of Europe subiect to the Turke. 1825 T. C. Croker Fairy Legends & Trad. S. Ireland I. 279 I got ashore, somehow or other..upon a dissolute island. B. n. A dissolute person, a profligate. rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] > person unthriftc1330 riotor1389 rioterc1440 palliard1484 skyrgalliarda1529 rakehellc1560 ranger1560 rakeshame1598 dissolute1608 pavement-beater1611 rakell1622 ranter1652 huzza1660 whorehopper1664 profligate1679 rakehellonian1692 rake1693 buck1725 blood1749 gay blade1750 have-at-alla1761 rakehellyc1768 hell-rake?1774 randan1779 rip1781 roué1781 hell-raker1816 tiger1827 raver1960 dog1994 1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. F4^v Did you euer conuerse with a more straunger dissolute? 1824 W. S. Landor Wks. (1846) I. 177/2 Half the dissolutes in the parish. 1838 R. Southey Poet's Pilgrimage ii. iii. x. (note) The homely but scriptural appellation..has been delicately softened down..Helen Maria Williams names her [Ch. of Rome] the Dissolute of Babylon. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † dissolutev. Etymology: < dissolute adj. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To render dissolute. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > spend or pass in dissolute living [verb (transitive)] > render dissolute dissolute1679 1679 M. Prance Addit. Narr. 29 The ready way to new-mould a Nation, is, first to dissolute and debauch it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.n.a1382v.1679
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dissoluteadj.n.

† dissolutev.