dissolutionn.

/dɪsəˈl(j)uːʃən/

Etymology: In some senses < French dissolution (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), in others < Latin dissolūtiōn-em , noun of action fromdissolvĕre to break up, dissolve v.

The action of dissolving or fact of being dissolved, in various senses of the verb.

a. Separation into parts or constituent elements; reduction of any body or mass to elements or atoms; destruction of the existing condition; disintegration, decomposition.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > decomposition, melting, or crumbling away

dissolutiona1398

resolution1533

mouldering1562

dissipation1597

deordination1686

decomposition1777

disintegration1794

chemolysis1872

biolysis1897

biodegradation1941

breakdown1959

biodeterioration1960

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. xlvii. 1311 Þough bitter þinges haue lasse hete þan scharpe þinges of sauour, [ȝit] it makeþ more dissolucioun and departynge in þe tonge.

1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy iii. xiv, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 142 Ells shall no kyndly Dyssolucyon be, Nor Putryfyyng shall thou none see.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 163 A hereditarie lepresie in a mans bodie is vncurable without the dissolution of the whole.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 459 When this worlds dissolution shall be ripe.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. i. 14 The Dissolution of Flesh, Skin, and Bones.

1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. x. 285 The vault, where the long-descended Counts of Provence awaited dissolution.

1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. xii. §97 Dissolution is the absorption of motion and concomitant disintegration of matter.

b. In a theory of disease, opposed to evolution.

ΚΠ

1883 Hughlings Jackson cited in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon

1894 Hughlings Jackson Factors of Insanities 3 I have often urged that for the scientific study of maladies of the Nervous System, we should investigate them as Dissolutions (reversals of Evolution) of this or that part of the nervous system.

1894 Hughlings Jackson Factors of Insanities 8 Studying insanities as Dissolutions—as reversals of evolution—of the highest cerebral centres.

a. The reduction of a substance from the solid to the liquid form; liquefaction. Now only the melting into water or the like; formerly, also, = fusion.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > [noun]

meltingeOE

humectation1477

liquefaction1477

colliquation1601

eliquation1603

dissolutiona1616

liquation1617

resolution1644

diffluence1673

uncurdling1673

flux1684

fluxion1731

fluidification1837

liquescence1875

fluidization1932

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. v. 108 A man of my Kidney..that am as subiect to heate as butter..A man of continuall dissolution, and thaw.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §291 Metals give Orient and fine Colours in Dissolution.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Cambr. 143 It happened in the year 1657 upon the dissolution of the great Snow.

1779 J. Moore View Society & Manners France (1789) I. xxvi. 212 The rays of the sun..occasion an unequal dissolution of the ice.

1802 G. Acerbi Trav. I. 396 Inundations..caused by the dissolution of the ice and snow.

†b. Of the blood: see quots. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Dissolution of the Blood, is an Affection of that Humor, directly opposite to Coagulation.

1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Dissolution..formerly applied by the humoral physicians to a diminution of consistence of the blood.

a. The process of dissolving or condition of being dissolved in a liquid; solution. Now rare or Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of dissolving > [noun]

solution1390

dissolution1558

infusion1676

dissolving1726

solutionizing1950

1558 [see sense 3b].

1651 J. French Art Distillation i. 10 Dissolution, is the turning of bodies into a liquor by the addition of some humidity.

1692 J. Ray Dissol. World (1732) iv. 54 The Dissolution of salt or sugar in water.

1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 166 Aqua Fortis is the best for the Dissolution of Metals.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby vii. 63 Allowing for the dissolution of the sugar.

†b. concrete. The result of this: the liquid with what is dissolved in it; a solution. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of dissolving > [noun] > solution

dissolution1558

solution1594

imbibition1626

deliquescence1756

1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount i. f. 5 To make a naturall dissolution of fine gold: and when you will take of it, take twoo partes of the said licoure, & one part of the dissolution of the gold.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §789 Dissolue the Iron in the Aqua Fortis: And weigh the Dissolution.

1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 304 Dissolve it in..Spirit of Nitre: set the dissolution to evaporate.

†4. Hurtful relaxation, softening, or weakening; enfeeblement. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakening or decline in health

failinga1382

sickeninga1382

wasting1398

downhielda1400

dissolutionc1400

debilitationa1492

defailing1502

effeeblishing1540

faintingc1540

effeeblishment1545

enervationa1575

feeblishing1574

declining1588

decay1609

flagging1611

labefaction1620

feebling1624

sinking1625

deading1645

dejection1652

fail1654

emperiment1674

decline1770

sapping1825

breakdown1858

attenuation1868

the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [noun] > making (immaterial things) weak

enervationa1575

watering1604

dilution1646

weakening1651

enervatinga1674

dissolution1684

emaciating1717

enfeeblement1805

dilutement1807

watering1840

attenuation1868

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xv. 163 For the grete distresse of the hete..for the gret dissolucioun of the Body.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 288 The decoction..helpeth the feeblenesse and dissolution of the sinewes.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 166 Dolorous Gouts..tortures and dissolutions of the limmes.

1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Living ii. §1 A longing after sensual pleasures is a dissolution of the spirit of a man, and makes it loose, soft, and wandering.

1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 151 There must follow..a dissolution of all Justice,..the chief Sinew of Society.

a. The condition of being loose from due restraint; †excess, extravagance (obsolete); laxity of behaviour or morals; dissolute living, dissoluteness (archaic).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [noun]

unimetec888

unmethelOE

overdeeda1200

unmetheshipa1250

outragec1325

ragec1330

reveriec1350

delavinessc1380

recolagea1400

dissolutionc1400

superfluityc1405

wantonness1448

intemperancy1532

intemperacy?1541

untemperance?1541

intemperance1547

excess1552

immoderateness1569

intemperateness1571

unbridledness1571

inordinateness1577

untemperateness1578

dissoluteness1580

acrasia1590

acrasy1590

intemperature1602

inordination1615

inordinancya1617

immoderation1640

extravagancy1651

debauch1672

extravagance1676

incontinency1715

extravaganza1754

incontinence1836

unmeasuredness1864

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > debauchery

riotc1330

dissolutionc1400

dissoluteness1549

debauchment1617

debauchery1642

debauch1673

dissipation1785

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > [noun] > affecting soul or spirit

dissolution1651

faintness1672

c1400 Rom. Rose 4901 It [youthe] ledith man now up now doun In mochel dissolucioun.

1482 Monk of Evesham 88 Them whiche wastyn the godys of the holy chyrche wherby they were made ryche in dyssolucyon of clothyng, in voluptuous metys and pompys of the world.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. DDvi^v Flye dissolucyon and wantonnesse.

1553 T. Becon Relikes of Rome (1563) 162* They for their vnthankefulnesse & dissolution of lyfe, were depriued of the holy communion.

1647 H. Hammond Of Power of Keyes Pref. sig. A^v Wickednesse and dissolution of manners was to be lookt on, as the only heresy.

1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Living ii. §1 These tamed his youthful aptnesses to dissolution.

1707 J. Norris Pract. Treat. Humility vi. 271 Nothing more betrays..dissolution of thought..than a vain foppish dress.

1866 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 634 After the general peace of 1814, dissolution began to decrease in high places.

†b. with plural. An instance of this; a dissolute act or practice; an extravagance or excess. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [noun] > instance(s) of

outrakea1400

dissolutionc1430

immoderations1606

intemperancy1608

intemperance1613

inordinance1657

c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1558) ii. xv. 1 Fleshly lustes and dissolutions.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 150 b/1 Lerne to be stylle & teschewe all dissolucions.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos vi. 23 He sheweth the dyssolucyons and peruerse condycyons that ben in the sexe femynyne.

1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 130/2 That..all dissolutions, vile and wicked actes be suppressed.

1651–3 Bp. J. Taylor Of Godly Fear in Serm. for Year (1678) iii. 61 Restraint of gaieties and dissolutions.

6. The relaxation or undoing of any tie, bond, or binding power; the dissolving of a connection, union, etc. (Cf. dissolve v. 10, 11.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > loosening or unfastening > [noun]

undoinga1425

leesingc1440

loosing1482

dissolution1548

unlocking1568

unloosing1578

loosening1598

unbinding1598

untying1598

abstriction1650

unclenching1688

unclinching1688

apoptosis1749

unreeving1775

unloosening1793

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxcv^v The cause of dissolucion of their amitie and league.

?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Three Bks. Eng. Hist. (1844) 5 Upon dissolution of that treatie.

1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Living ii. §2 The loosing the bands of the tongue, and the very first dissolution of its duty is one degree of intemperance.

1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 294/2 A marriage of a feme-sole trader is also a dissolution of a partnership at will.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 120 Even if the marriage..had never been questioned, he might justly have desired the dissolution of it.

7. The breaking up, dismissal, or dispersion of an assembly or association; the termination of the existence of a constituted body of persons (e.g. of the monasteries, and now esp. of Parliament).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [noun] > of body, meeting, etc.

dissolution1535

downthrow1615

obnunciation1623

dissolving1849

demotion1872

1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 26. §26 Immediately vpon the prorogacion or dissolucion of this present parliament.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxii. 116 The Assembly may be punished..by dissolution, or forfeiture of their Letters.

1656 B. Harris in tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age Contin. 280 Some moneths before the dissolution of the Parliament.

1730 Magna Britannia V. 762/1 Herdwick Priors..continued in the Monks Hands till the Dissolution.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. ii. 180 A dissolution is the civil death of the parliament.

1831 J. Sinclair Corr. II. 373 Since the dissolution of the Board of Agriculture.

1862 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 3) xiii. 184 The dissolution of the monasteries in Henry VIII's reign.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §2. 462 The conversion of the King was followed by a quiet dissolution of the Huguenot party.

8. Termination of life; death, decease.Variously understood as ‘departure or release from life’, ‘separation of the soul from the body’, and ‘disintegration of the body’. See dissolve v. 6.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > [noun]

hensithOE

qualmOE

bale-sithea1000

endingc1000

fallOE

forthsitheOE

soulingOE

life's endOE

deathOE

hethensithc1200

last end?c1225

forthfarec1275

dying1297

finec1300

partingc1300

endc1305

deceasec1330

departc1330

starving1340

passingc1350

latter enda1382

obita1382

perishingc1384

carrion1387

departing1388

finishmentc1400

trespassement14..

passing forthc1410

sesse1417

cess1419

fininga1425

resolutiona1425

departisona1450

passagea1450

departmentc1450

consummation?a1475

dormition1483

debt to (also of) naturea1513

dissolutionc1522

expirationa1530

funeral?a1534

change1543

departure1558

last change1574

transmigration1576

dissolving1577

shaking of the sheets?1577

departance1579

deceasure1580

mortality1582

deceasing1591

waftage1592

launching1599

quietus1603

doom1609

expire1612

expiring1612

period1613

defunctiona1616

Lethea1616

fail1623

dismissiona1631

set1635

passa1645

disanimation1646

suffering1651

abition1656

Passovera1662

latter (last) end1670

finis1682

exitus1706

perch1722

demission1735

demise1753

translation1760

transit1764

dropping1768

expiry1790

departal1823

finish1826

homegoing1866

the last (also final, great) round-up1879

snuffing1922

fade-out1924

thirty1929

appointment in Samarra1934

dirt nap1981

big chill1987

c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 77 The disolucion and seueraunce of the soule fro the body.

1568 Bible (Bishops') 2 Tim. iv. 6 The time of my dissolution [Gk. ἀναλύσεως, L. resolutionis; earlier Eng. vv., from Wycl. 1388 departing] is at hande.

1597 S. Finche Let. 18 Feb. in A. C. Ducarel Some Acct. Town Croydon (1783) App. 152 Thanks to Almightie God for Mr. Comptroller's dissolucion from the bondage of his corrupte bodie.

a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) lx. 201 Death is but a passage unto life, a dissolution of soule and body for a season.

1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall i. 3 Men have been most phantasticall in the singular contrivanc[e]s of their corporall dissolution.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 263. ⁋1 He waits the Day of his Dissolution with a Resignation mixed with Delight.

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 29. ⁋12 It is absurd to be afraid of the natural dissolution of the body.

1827 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers 6 Aug. (1884) I His breathing is difficult, and..there are all the symptoms of approaching dissolution.

1856 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. (ed. 3) I. iv. 131 Some die retaining all their faculties, and quite aware that their dissolution is at hand.

a. The action of bringing or condition of being brought to an end; undoing, termination, destruction, ruin; breaking up, disintegration, disorganization (of a connected system, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > dissolution or destruction of a connected system

upbreaking1493

dissolution1528

catalysis1655

upbreak1882

1528 S. Gardiner in N. Pocock Rec. Reformation (1870) I. l. 102 That realm were like to come to dissolution.

a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Uuu2/2 I doubt not..To see a dissolution of all bloudshed.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. x. 230 Down to the last Dissolution of their City under Titus.

1728 E. Young Love of Fame vi, in Wks. (1757) I. 154 Such dissolution through the whole I find, 'Tis not a world, but chaos of mankind.

1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. iii. 60 He had but to wait the dissolution of Otho's power; it crumbled away of itself.

1893 S. F. Smith How Church Eng. washed her Face in Month 77 47 The same dissolution of morals and irreligious spirit had existed.

†b. Music. (See quot. 1764) Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1764 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I Dissolution, in music, is when a sound in the enharmonic genus is lowered three dieses; for thereby that genus is dissolved, and the music..is chromatic.

†10. Solution, resolution (of a question, etc.). Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > solution, explanation

soilingc1380

solutionc1384

invention1484

resolutiona1500

dissolution1549

way1574

resolvea1630

solving1706

solve1780

1549 Latimer's 5th Serm. bef Edw. VI (Arb.) 132 (margin) M. Latimer returneth to hys former question and to the dissolucion of the same.

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单词	dissolution
释义	dissolutionn. /dɪsəˈl(j)uːʃən/ Etymology: In some senses < French dissolution (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), in others < Latin dissolūtiōn-em , noun of action fromdissolvĕre to break up, dissolve v. The action of dissolving or fact of being dissolved, in various senses of the verb. 1. a. Separation into parts or constituent elements; reduction of any body or mass to elements or atoms; destruction of the existing condition; disintegration, decomposition. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > decomposition, melting, or crumbling away dissolutiona1398 resolution1533 mouldering1562 dissipation1597 deordination1686 decomposition1777 disintegration1794 chemolysis1872 biolysis1897 biodegradation1941 breakdown1959 biodeterioration1960 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. xlvii. 1311 Þough bitter þinges haue lasse hete þan scharpe þinges of sauour, [ȝit] it makeþ more dissolucioun and departynge in þe tonge. 1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy iii. xiv, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 142 Ells shall no kyndly Dyssolucyon be, Nor Putryfyyng shall thou none see. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 163 A hereditarie lepresie in a mans bodie is vncurable without the dissolution of the whole. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 459 When this worlds dissolution shall be ripe. View more context for this quotation 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. i. 14 The Dissolution of Flesh, Skin, and Bones. 1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. x. 285 The vault, where the long-descended Counts of Provence awaited dissolution. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. xii. §97 Dissolution is the absorption of motion and concomitant disintegration of matter. b. In a theory of disease, opposed to evolution. ΚΠ 1883 Hughlings Jackson cited in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1894 Hughlings Jackson Factors of Insanities 3 I have often urged that for the scientific study of maladies of the Nervous System, we should investigate them as Dissolutions (reversals of Evolution) of this or that part of the nervous system. 1894 Hughlings Jackson Factors of Insanities 8 Studying insanities as Dissolutions—as reversals of evolution—of the highest cerebral centres. 2. a. The reduction of a substance from the solid to the liquid form; liquefaction. Now only the melting into water or the like; formerly, also, = fusion. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > [noun] meltingeOE humectation1477 liquefaction1477 colliquation1601 eliquation1603 dissolutiona1616 liquation1617 resolution1644 diffluence1673 uncurdling1673 flux1684 fluxion1731 fluidification1837 liquescence1875 fluidization1932 a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iii. v. 108 A man of my Kidney..that am as subiect to heate as butter..A man of continuall dissolution, and thaw. View more context for this quotation 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §291 Metals give Orient and fine Colours in Dissolution. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Cambr. 143 It happened in the year 1657 upon the dissolution of the great Snow. 1779 J. Moore View Society & Manners France (1789) I. xxvi. 212 The rays of the sun..occasion an unequal dissolution of the ice. 1802 G. Acerbi Trav. I. 396 Inundations..caused by the dissolution of the ice and snow. †b. Of the blood: see quots. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Dissolution of the Blood, is an Affection of that Humor, directly opposite to Coagulation. 1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Dissolution..formerly applied by the humoral physicians to a diminution of consistence of the blood. 3. a. The process of dissolving or condition of being dissolved in a liquid; solution. Now rare or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of dissolving > [noun] solution1390 dissolution1558 infusion1676 dissolving1726 solutionizing1950 1558 [see sense 3b]. 1651 J. French Art Distillation i. 10 Dissolution, is the turning of bodies into a liquor by the addition of some humidity. 1692 J. Ray Dissol. World (1732) iv. 54 The Dissolution of salt or sugar in water. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 166 Aqua Fortis is the best for the Dissolution of Metals. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby vii. 63 Allowing for the dissolution of the sugar. †b. concrete. The result of this: the liquid with what is dissolved in it; a solution. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of dissolving > [noun] > solution dissolution1558 solution1594 imbibition1626 deliquescence1756 1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount i. f. 5 To make a naturall dissolution of fine gold: and when you will take of it, take twoo partes of the said licoure, & one part of the dissolution of the gold. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §789 Dissolue the Iron in the Aqua Fortis: And weigh the Dissolution. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 304 Dissolve it in..Spirit of Nitre: set the dissolution to evaporate. †4. Hurtful relaxation, softening, or weakening; enfeeblement. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakening or decline in health failinga1382 sickeninga1382 wasting1398 downhielda1400 dissolutionc1400 debilitationa1492 defailing1502 effeeblishing1540 faintingc1540 effeeblishment1545 enervationa1575 feeblishing1574 declining1588 decay1609 flagging1611 labefaction1620 feebling1624 sinking1625 deading1645 dejection1652 fail1654 emperiment1674 decline1770 sapping1825 breakdown1858 attenuation1868 the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [noun] > making (immaterial things) weak enervationa1575 watering1604 dilution1646 weakening1651 enervatinga1674 dissolution1684 emaciating1717 enfeeblement1805 dilutement1807 watering1840 attenuation1868 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xv. 163 For the grete distresse of the hete..for the gret dissolucioun of the Body. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 288 The decoction..helpeth the feeblenesse and dissolution of the sinewes. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 166 Dolorous Gouts..tortures and dissolutions of the limmes. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Living ii. §1 A longing after sensual pleasures is a dissolution of the spirit of a man, and makes it loose, soft, and wandering. 1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 151 There must follow..a dissolution of all Justice,..the chief Sinew of Society. 5. a. The condition of being loose from due restraint; †excess, extravagance (obsolete); laxity of behaviour or morals; dissolute living, dissoluteness (archaic). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [noun] unimetec888 unmethelOE overdeeda1200 unmetheshipa1250 outragec1325 ragec1330 reveriec1350 delavinessc1380 recolagea1400 dissolutionc1400 superfluityc1405 wantonness1448 intemperancy1532 intemperacy?1541 untemperance?1541 intemperance1547 excess1552 immoderateness1569 intemperateness1571 unbridledness1571 inordinateness1577 untemperateness1578 dissoluteness1580 acrasia1590 acrasy1590 intemperature1602 inordination1615 inordinancya1617 immoderation1640 extravagancy1651 debauch1672 extravagance1676 incontinency1715 extravaganza1754 incontinence1836 unmeasuredness1864 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > debauchery riotc1330 dissolutionc1400 dissoluteness1549 debauchment1617 debauchery1642 debauch1673 dissipation1785 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > weakness of intellect > [noun] > affecting soul or spirit dissolution1651 faintness1672 c1400 Rom. Rose 4901 It [youthe] ledith man now up now doun In mochel dissolucioun. 1482 Monk of Evesham 88 Them whiche wastyn the godys of the holy chyrche wherby they were made ryche in dyssolucyon of clothyng, in voluptuous metys and pompys of the world. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. DDvi^v Flye dissolucyon and wantonnesse. 1553 T. Becon Relikes of Rome (1563) 162* They for their vnthankefulnesse & dissolution of lyfe, were depriued of the holy communion. 1647 H. Hammond Of Power of Keyes Pref. sig. A^v Wickednesse and dissolution of manners was to be lookt on, as the only heresy. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Living ii. §1 These tamed his youthful aptnesses to dissolution. 1707 J. Norris Pract. Treat. Humility vi. 271 Nothing more betrays..dissolution of thought..than a vain foppish dress. 1866 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 634 After the general peace of 1814, dissolution began to decrease in high places. †b. with plural. An instance of this; a dissolute act or practice; an extravagance or excess. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [noun] > instance(s) of outrakea1400 dissolutionc1430 immoderations1606 intemperancy1608 intemperance1613 inordinance1657 c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1558) ii. xv. 1 Fleshly lustes and dissolutions. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 150 b/1 Lerne to be stylle & teschewe all dissolucions. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos vi. 23 He sheweth the dyssolucyons and peruerse condycyons that ben in the sexe femynyne. 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 130/2 That..all dissolutions, vile and wicked actes be suppressed. 1651–3 Bp. J. Taylor Of Godly Fear in Serm. for Year (1678) iii. 61 Restraint of gaieties and dissolutions. 6. The relaxation or undoing of any tie, bond, or binding power; the dissolving of a connection, union, etc. (Cf. dissolve v. 10, 11.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > loosening or unfastening > [noun] undoinga1425 leesingc1440 loosing1482 dissolution1548 unlocking1568 unloosing1578 loosening1598 unbinding1598 untying1598 abstriction1650 unclenching1688 unclinching1688 apoptosis1749 unreeving1775 unloosening1793 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxcv^v The cause of dissolucion of their amitie and league. ?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Three Bks. Eng. Hist. (1844) 5 Upon dissolution of that treatie. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Living ii. §2 The loosing the bands of the tongue, and the very first dissolution of its duty is one degree of intemperance. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 294/2 A marriage of a feme-sole trader is also a dissolution of a partnership at will. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 120 Even if the marriage..had never been questioned, he might justly have desired the dissolution of it. 7. The breaking up, dismissal, or dispersion of an assembly or association; the termination of the existence of a constituted body of persons (e.g. of the monasteries, and now esp. of Parliament). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [noun] > of body, meeting, etc. dissolution1535 downthrow1615 obnunciation1623 dissolving1849 demotion1872 1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 26. §26 Immediately vpon the prorogacion or dissolucion of this present parliament. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxii. 116 The Assembly may be punished..by dissolution, or forfeiture of their Letters. 1656 B. Harris in tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age Contin. 280 Some moneths before the dissolution of the Parliament. 1730 Magna Britannia V. 762/1 Herdwick Priors..continued in the Monks Hands till the Dissolution. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. ii. 180 A dissolution is the civil death of the parliament. 1831 J. Sinclair Corr. II. 373 Since the dissolution of the Board of Agriculture. 1862 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 3) xiii. 184 The dissolution of the monasteries in Henry VIII's reign. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §2. 462 The conversion of the King was followed by a quiet dissolution of the Huguenot party. 8. Termination of life; death, decease.Variously understood as ‘departure or release from life’, ‘separation of the soul from the body’, and ‘disintegration of the body’. See dissolve v. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] hensithOE qualmOE bale-sithea1000 endingc1000 fallOE forthsitheOE soulingOE life's endOE deathOE hethensithc1200 last end?c1225 forthfarec1275 dying1297 finec1300 partingc1300 endc1305 deceasec1330 departc1330 starving1340 passingc1350 latter enda1382 obita1382 perishingc1384 carrion1387 departing1388 finishmentc1400 trespassement14.. passing forthc1410 sesse1417 cess1419 fininga1425 resolutiona1425 departisona1450 passagea1450 departmentc1450 consummation?a1475 dormition1483 debt to (also of) naturea1513 dissolutionc1522 expirationa1530 funeral?a1534 change1543 departure1558 last change1574 transmigration1576 dissolving1577 shaking of the sheets?1577 departance1579 deceasure1580 mortality1582 deceasing1591 waftage1592 launching1599 quietus1603 doom1609 expire1612 expiring1612 period1613 defunctiona1616 Lethea1616 fail1623 dismissiona1631 set1635 passa1645 disanimation1646 suffering1651 abition1656 Passovera1662 latter (last) end1670 finis1682 exitus1706 perch1722 demission1735 demise1753 translation1760 transit1764 dropping1768 expiry1790 departal1823 finish1826 homegoing1866 the last (also final, great) round-up1879 snuffing1922 fade-out1924 thirty1929 appointment in Samarra1934 dirt nap1981 big chill1987 c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 77 The disolucion and seueraunce of the soule fro the body. 1568 Bible (Bishops') 2 Tim. iv. 6 The time of my dissolution [Gk. ἀναλύσεως, L. resolutionis; earlier Eng. vv., from Wycl. 1388 departing] is at hande. 1597 S. Finche Let. 18 Feb. in A. C. Ducarel Some Acct. Town Croydon (1783) App. 152 Thanks to Almightie God for Mr. Comptroller's dissolucion from the bondage of his corrupte bodie. a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) lx. 201 Death is but a passage unto life, a dissolution of soule and body for a season. 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall i. 3 Men have been most phantasticall in the singular contrivanc[e]s of their corporall dissolution. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 263. ⁋1 He waits the Day of his Dissolution with a Resignation mixed with Delight. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 29. ⁋12 It is absurd to be afraid of the natural dissolution of the body. 1827 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers 6 Aug. (1884) I His breathing is difficult, and..there are all the symptoms of approaching dissolution. 1856 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. (ed. 3) I. iv. 131 Some die retaining all their faculties, and quite aware that their dissolution is at hand. 9. a. The action of bringing or condition of being brought to an end; undoing, termination, destruction, ruin; breaking up, disintegration, disorganization (of a connected system, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > dissolution or destruction of a connected system upbreaking1493 dissolution1528 catalysis1655 upbreak1882 1528 S. Gardiner in N. Pocock Rec. Reformation (1870) I. l. 102 That realm were like to come to dissolution. a1627 J. Fletcher & T. Middleton Nice Valour iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Uuu2/2 I doubt not..To see a dissolution of all bloudshed. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. x. 230 Down to the last Dissolution of their City under Titus. 1728 E. Young Love of Fame vi, in Wks. (1757) I. 154 Such dissolution through the whole I find, 'Tis not a world, but chaos of mankind. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. iii. 60 He had but to wait the dissolution of Otho's power; it crumbled away of itself. 1893 S. F. Smith How Church Eng. washed her Face in Month 77 47 The same dissolution of morals and irreligious spirit had existed. †b. Music. (See quot. 1764) Obsolete. ΚΠ 1764 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I Dissolution, in music, is when a sound in the enharmonic genus is lowered three dieses; for thereby that genus is dissolved, and the music..is chromatic. †10. Solution, resolution (of a question, etc.). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > solution, explanation soilingc1380 solutionc1384 invention1484 resolutiona1500 dissolution1549 way1574 resolvea1630 solving1706 solve1780 1549 Latimer's 5th Serm. bef Edw. VI (Arb.) 132 (margin) M. Latimer returneth to hys former question and to the dissolucion of the same. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1398
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