resolutionn.¹

Brit.

/ˌrɛzəˈl(j)uːʃn/, U.S.

/ˌrɛzəˈluʃ(ə)n/

Forms: Middle English resolucioun, Middle English resolucyoun, Middle English–1600s resolucion, Middle English– resolution, 1500s resolucyon, 1600s resolvtion; Scottish pre-1700 resollowtioune, pre-1700 resollution, pre-1700 resolucion, pre-1700 resolucioun, pre-1700 resolucioune, pre-1700 resolutione, pre-1700 resolutioun, pre-1700 resolutioune, pre-1700 resolwsion, pre-1700 1700s– resolution; N.E.D. (1908) also records a form late Middle English resolucyon.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French resolution; Latin resolūtiōn-, resolūtiō.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French resolucion, resolution (French résolution ) reduction or separation of a material object into its component parts or elements (a1280 in Old French), return of a swollen or inflamed organ or part of the body to its normal state (1314), decision (c1370), elimination or easing of doubt (1422 in the passage translated in quot. a1500 at sense 14a(a)), formal decision or expression of opinion by a deliberative assembly, committee, court, etc. (1534), process of solving a mathematical problem (1565 in the passage translated in quot. 1579 at sense 14a(b)), determination, firmness of purpose (1580) and its etymon classical Latin resolūtiōn-, resolūtiō action of untying or unfastening, unravelling (of a puzzle), limp or relaxed state, looseness, cancellation, annulment (2nd or 3rd cent. a.d.), in post-classical Latin also death (Vulgate), breaking up of metrical structure (4th cent.), analytical proof by induction (4th or 5th cent.), (in alchemy) solution (13th cent. in a British source), removal of doubt (1552 in a British source in resolutio dubitationis ), decision (a1564) < resolūt- , past participial stem of resolvere resolve v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Catalan resolució (15th cent.), Spanish resolución (a1418), Portuguese resolução (15th cent.), Italian risoluzione (1310; end of the 13th cent. as †resolutione ; also †resoluzione ). Compare resolving n. and solution n., and also resolve v.Many senses of the English noun are not paralleled in French until later, e.g.: substance resulting from a process of decomposition (a1500), solving of a difficulty or problem (16th cent.), relaxation of tension (1572), process of reducing a non-material object into a simpler form or forms, or of converting it into some other thing or form (1647), consumption (1680), separation of the parts of a canon (1721), alteration of a discord or relatively dissonant harmony (1842), solution of an equation (1845), (in prosody, originally and chiefly with reference to Greek and Latin) substitution of two short syllables for a simple long one (1862 or earlier). With later spec. use in sense 7b with reference to early Germanic prosody compare German Auflosung (1885 or earlier in this spec. use).

I. Physical conversion, dissolution, or separation.

a. The reduction or separation of an object or substance into constituent parts or elements; decomposition, disintegration, dispersion. Formerly also: †a material result of this, spec. a smoke or vapour (obsolete). Now rare.In extended use in quot. 1856.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [noun]

resolutiona1398

resolvinga1398

anatomya1569

analysis1588

analysing1600

retexture1620

principiationa1626

solution1655

analysation1698

decomposure1744

decomposition1762

disarticulation1902

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 137 By resolucioun þerof [L. per sui resolucionem] and departinge and turnynge in to reyne oþir dewe, þe raynbow quikeþ and byspringiþ þe neþir þynges.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 5925 (MED) Þe sacrid fire Ne wolde brenne..þei ne myȝt se Nouȝt but smoky resoluciouns, Horrible and blak.

a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxxi. sig. l.iii Our sauiour..preserued her body..Both hole and sounde, from naturall resolucion.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 211 It dooth..preserue the same from resolution and putrefaction.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §400 The Immediate Cause of Death, is the Resolution or Extinguishment of the Spirits.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iii. vi. 278 The Resolution or Maceration of Frogs and Worms will reproduce Individuals of the same species.

1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 230 By their Resolution, or the true Anatomy I made of them, I found them to be compos'd of much Sulphur, a little Mercury, and less Salt.

1794 J. Hutton Diss. Philos. Light 297 The decomposition or resolution of phlogistic substances..is now well understood.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 9 The high temperature maintained in the stomach..produces a concoctive resolution.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits iv. 55 All our experience is of the gradation and resolution of races.

1909 Science 9 Apr. 598/1 Creatin is liberated by the disintegrating muscle... Here creatin is a product both of metabolism and of tissue resolution.

b. Reduction or separation of an object into (formerly †to) constituent parts; analysis of a mixed or compound substance by separation into components. Occasionally also: conversion to a different form or state (now rare).

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun] > change into

reduction1605

deduction1650

resolution1659

conversion1661

?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. Av^v Corrupcyon of a body..ys but the resolucyon..Of euery element to his owne place.

1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (xc. 3 Annot.) 454/2 The resolution of the body to dust, may be fitly exprest.

1691 H. Gregg Curiosities in Chymistry 26 All Alcalies, even the purest, are endow'd with so much of a Seminal Acid, as does indeed preserve them from a Spontaneous resolution, into Elementary Water.

1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 51 The attempts made to analyse vegetable substances previous to 1720, merely produced their resolution into the supposed elements of the chemists of those days.

1928 Lancet 31 Mar. 666/1 Anything which tends to delay the corruption of a corpse and its resolution into its constituent elements is to be deprecated.

1971 Biogr. Mem. Fellows Royal Soc. 17 624 The resolution of quassia extract into its two major components, quassin and neo-quassin.

c. Chemistry. The process of separating a racemic compound or mixture into its component optical isomers.

ΚΠ

1878 C. A. M. Tidy Handbk. Mod. Chem. xxiv. 622 It [sc. meso-tartaric acid] differs from..paratartaric or racemic acid, which is also without action on a polarized ray, but which is a compound of dextro- and lævo-tartaric acid, and is capable of resolution into these two modifications of the acid.

1914 Chem. Abstr. 8 2716 (heading) Resolution of racemic saccharides by means of optically active amyl mercaptan, and some mercaptals.

1983 R. O. C. Norman & D. J. Waddington Mod. Org. Chem. (ed. 4) xv. 245 Racemisation is the opposite of resolution; that is, it consists of the formation of equal amounts of a pair of enantiomers from either of the two.

2008 Biotech Week (Nexis) 20 Aug. 1574 A high-performance liquid chromatographic method has been developed for resolution of the structural isomers of fexofenadine hydrochloride in the bulk drug.

2. Medicine.

†a. Dispersal or dissolution of humours or morbid material; softening of a hardened mass in the body; an instance of this. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > [noun] > dispersing, etc., of humours or morbid matter

resolvinga1398

attractiona1400

resolutiona1400

repercussion?a1425

eduction?c1425

discussion1583

repulsion1583

epicrasis1592

derivation1600

expurgation1615

attractation1616

incision1626

diversion1656

dispersion1753

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 353 It wole make þe mater mollificatif & make þe poris open to resolucioun.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 22^v (MED) Apostemez..bene mynushed by insensible resolucioun or bi putrefaccioun or bi induracioun.

1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ii. f. 65/2 It causeth the humours to breath out wyth gentyll resolution, and sedation of payne.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 190 Through paruity of exercise, and resolution of superfluous matter by the pores many crude..humours are bred.

1749 T. Gataker tr. H. F. Le Dran Operations Surg. 12 Resolution is a motion in the obstructed fluids, which causes part to transpire through the pores, and the rest to enter again into the course of the circulation.

1778 R. James Diss. Fevers (ed. 8) 7 To bring about a concretion or resolution of the humours which excited the fever.

†b. Conversion to pus; suppuration. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun]

festeringa1400

maturation?a1425

rankling?a1425

suppuration?a1425

whealingc1440

mattering?c1450

rancouring1567

suppurating1589

resolution1598

empyema1655

pyosis1684

pyogenesis1848

assimilation1864

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. iv. i. f. 17^v/1 The suppuratione, or resolutione to matter beinge finished [Fr. Quand la suppuration est parfaicte & acheuee].

1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. iv. iii. 253 If..the Strume[be] recent and but moderately hard, the Resolution or Suppuration of them is seizable.

c. The subsiding or cessation of a pathological process, disease, symptom, etc.; spec. the termination of inflammation, esp. without suppuration or permanent damage to tissue.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > inflammation > [noun] > disappearance without suppuration

resolution1777

1777 W. Cullen First Lines Pract. Physic I. ii. i. §244. 191 If an inflammation be cured while the state and texture of the part remain entire, the disease is said to be terminated by Resolution.

1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 790/2 Resolution is not only the most favourable, but the most common termination of inflammation.

1893 Lancet 25 Feb. 408/1 Other changes may take place, resulting in the formation of cicatricial tissue, but resolution may follow without any alteration of structure.

1937 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 37 374/2 General symptoms or their absence, while of great value, do not tell us with certainty when complete and permanent resolution of disease has been accomplished.

1992 D. P. Speert in C. E. Lewis & J. O'D. McGee Macrophage v. 219 Upon resolution of the infection, new monocytes are no longer recruited.

2004 Jrnl. Infection 49 306/2 They studied 126 ambulatory patients and defined cure as the time to resolution of all five symptoms.

†3.

a. Death; = dissolution n. 8. Chiefly in the time of a person's resolution (esp. in echoes of 2 Timothy 4:6). Obsolete.

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

a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) 2 Tim. iv. 6 Þe tyme of my resolucyoun [L. resolutionis] instandys.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 57 (MED) Poul seith in the same epistle that tyme of his resolucioun (that is to seie of the departing bitwixe his bodi and his soule) was than neiȝe.

c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 536 (MED) God made..Be an angel hys spirit to conveye..Affter his bodyly resolucyoun..to the hevenly mansioun.

1513 Life Henry V (1911) 182 When this..Kinge was vndoubtedly acertained of his phisicions that the time of his resolucion approached.

1582 Bible (Rheims) 2 Tim. iv. 6 The time of my resolution [1611 departure] is at hand.

1592 T. Rogers tr. Thomas à Kempis Soliloquium Animae vii. 44 In this hope I flie vnto thee, vntill the last houre and time of my resolution shall come.

b. A state of bodily dissolution or decay. Obsolete. rare.

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

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. ii. xiv. 184 Þe membris..brocht baith þame self and all þe body to extreme resolucioun [L. tabem].

4. Medicine. Weakening or softening of the body or a part; spec. paralysis or paresis of a muscle; an instance of this. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakness

faintise1297

weaknessa1300

faintc1320

feebleness1340

languishingc1384

lamea1400

unferea1400

unferenessa1400

unwielda1400

impotence1406

imbecility?a1425

languisha1425

languoringa1438

unwieldness1437

faintnessa1440

impotency1440

infirmityc1440

debility1484

unlustiness1486

resolution1547

unwieldiness1575

languishment1576

infirmness1596

weakness1603

prostrationa1626

exolution1634

languidness1634

prosternation1650

faintingnessa1661

debilitude1669

flaccidity1676

atony1693

puniness1727

faintishness1733

adynamia1743

asthenia1802

adynamy1817

weakliness1826

tonelessness1873

atonicity1900

1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. Cvi A palsey doth come..by resolucion or els compression of the neruouse or sinewes.

1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes xvi. f. xcvi^v What resolution, and as it were a meltinge of his bodye and bowelles.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 49 Those that haue the palsie or resolution of the nerues.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. E5^v Fear..causeth loosenesse, resolution of the muscles, and sometimes death with a small pulse.

1704 tr. G. Baglivi Pract. Physick i. ix. 101 Apoplectick persons seldom get clear without the Resolution of some Part; and if all their Members are seiz'd in that Paralytick way they re soon carryed off.

1779 S. Johnson Let. 23 June (1992) III. 175 Weariness is itself a temporary resolution of the nerves.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 618 Owing to the complete muscular ‘resolution’ the cheeks will be flaccid.

1923 Internat. Clin. 31st Ser. 4 113 In other cases muscular resolution was more marked on one side of the body.

1958 Electroencephalogr. & Clin. Neurophysiol. 10 612/1 The subject remains in a state of muscular resolution.

†5. Transformation into a liquid; liquefaction, condensation. Obsolete. rare.

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

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. x. 77 In the hoat springes of extreme cold countries, where the first heates are vnsufferable; which proceede out of the resolution of humidity congealed.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. ii. 174 It must be caused by the resolution of the Snow which was dissolved the Week before.

a. Originally: the effect of a telescope in making the stars of a nebula distinguishable by the eye. Later more widely: the process or capability of rendering distinguishable the component parts of an object or image; a measure of this, expressed as the smallest separation so distinguishable, or as the number of pixels that form an image; the degree of detail with which an image can be reproduced; = resolving power n. (b) at resolving n. Compounds.high-, range resolution: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > [noun] > capability of distinguishing or separating

resolving power1664

resolution1831

the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [noun] > resolution or rendering distinguishable

resolution1831

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [noun] > qualities of lenses

power1673

refracting angle1676

resolution1831

depth of focus1852

astigmatism1859

aplanatism1869

apochromatism1887

covering power1895

coverage1936

asphericity1944

parfocality1955

1831 Philos. Mag. 2nd Ser. 9 45 Messier's 22nd nebula is resolved by Sir James South's telescope into an immense number of brilliant small stars. In Mr. Barlow's telescope the same resolution is effected.

1852 D. Olmsted in O. M. Mitchell Orbs of Heaven App. 300 The resolution of this nebula has been the signal for the renunciation of Herschel's nebular hypothesis.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 776 A resolving power of 100,000 would suffice for the resolution of the closest lines in the spectrum.

1954 Jrnl. Paleontol. 28 396/1 Some of the characters are so small as to be near the limit of resolution of an ordinary microscope.

1962 Which? Mar. 70/1 We measured the resolution. This is the ability of the projector to reproduce fine detail.

1997 Chicago Tribune 14 Dec. iv. 7 (advt.) Olympus D-220L Digital Camera. 640 x 480 Resolution.

2006 Which Digital Camera? Mar. 3/1 As resolution increases, so too does the need for bigger media cards.

b. The ability of a device to respond to small differences in input and to indicate or represent them accurately in output; a measure of this, expressed as the smallest difference so distinguishable. More widely: discrimination or distinction between things that are close together in space or time.

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1931 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 132 307 The ‘resolution’ (i.e., the smallest interval of time by which two impulses could be separated and still be separately recorded) of the relay ring..was between 1/100th and 1/200th second.

1949 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 136 402 Their slower contraction makes the resolution in time of rapid events much easier.

1968 Brit. Med. Bull. 24 255/1 This provides 8-bit resolution for the input samples.

1972 Sci. Amer. July 19/3 A 1,000 kilohertz..sonar would provide a resolution of 30 centimeters on a target 200 meters away.

1984 J. J. Lowe & M. J. C. Walker Reconstructing Quaternary Environments iii. 127 Data from cave speleothems should provide considerably better resolution in time than those obtained from ocean sediments.

1995 J. Shreeve Neandertal Enigma (1996) vii. 195 Some researchers have contended that the coexistence..is merely an illusion created by the poor resolution offered by the archaeological record.

II. Breaking up or conversion of a non-material thing.

a. The process of reducing a non-material thing into a simpler form or forms, or of converting it into some other thing or form; an instance of this. Frequently (now usually) with into (formerly sometimes †in).

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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun]

overchangingc1384

transmutation1398

permutationa1425

transforming1435

resolutiona1450

translating1503

resolvinga1513

conversion1549

transposing1550

conversationa1570

transmuting1579

projection?1583

transmigration1618

version1626

transversion1656

transmogrification1661

converting1711

metamorphosing1730

metastasis1818

turn-over1825

interconversion1865

transnaturation1873

transmorphism1888

segue1945

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [noun] > specific something immaterial

resolutiona1450

a1450 (a1397) Prol. Old Test. in Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Cambr. Mm.2.15) (1850) xv. 57 In translating into English, manie resolucions moun make the sentence open, as an ablatif case absolute may be resoluid into these thre wordis, with couenable verbe—the while, for, if.

a1450 (a1397) Prol. Old Test. in Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Cambr. Mm.2.15) (1850) xv. 57 I Englishe it thus bi resolucioun.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 79 The pronownes derivatyves have thre accidentes,..by whiche their gendre and nombre is expressed, and resolucyon in to their primityves.

1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 9 The first principles and grounds, which are indemonstrable, and for theyr simplicity can suffer no farther resolution.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Annot. sig. ¶4^v Black or halfe black ligatures,..with the resolution of the same in other common notes.

1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon vii. 44 What that Cath. Church is, into the authority whereof they make the last resolution of their Faith.

1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated Pref. 12 This sensless resolution of all things into Reason.

1742 A. Pope Dunciad iv. in Wks. III. 40 This was not a Metamorphosis either in one or the other, but only a Resolution of the Soul into its true Principles, its real Essence being Harmony.

1786 J. H. Tooke Επεα Πτεροεντα vi. 134 Though your method of resolution will answer with most sentences, yet I doubt much whether it will with all.

1797 Encycl. Brit. X. 193/2 Of the Composition and Resolutions of our Ideas, and the Rules of Definition thence arising.

1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 181 The resolution of the apparent motions of the heavenly bodies into an assemblage of circular motions.

1845 Proc. Philol. Soc. 2 167 This form furnishes a complete and intelligible resolution of the phrase.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 11 The resolution of justice into two unconnected precepts.

1926 G. N. Lewis Anat. Sci. v. 123 The resolution of the phenomenon of light into its two aspects..promises to be extremely useful.

a1931 G. H. Mead Philos. of Act (1938) iii. 62 Nothing would more completely squeeze the interest out of his world than the resolution of it into the data of observation.

2001 R. Terada Feeling in Theory 62 The gradual resolution of an uncertain feeling into a named emotion is sealed..when the sculptor encounters his finished statue.

b. Prosody. The substitution of two short syllables for a single long one; the result of such a substitution. Later also (in early Germanic prosody): the phenomenon whereby two syllables (the first of which must be short) may in certain circumstances be regarded as equivalent to a single long one.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > quantity > substitution of long or short syllables

anaclasis1784

resolution1814

contraction1884

1814 Classical Jrnl. June 375 A tribrachys..is a resolution of an iambus.

1843 W. O'Brien Anc. Rhythmical Art Recovered iv. 108 The resolution of the long syllables in verse 6 seems intended for the expression of tumult and rapid flight.

1884 F. De F. Allen Hadley's Greek Gram. (rev. ed.) §1080 A tribrach stands by resolution in place of the first trochee.

1948 Mod. Philol. 46 88/2 Some of these first words may by the ‘resolution’ of Sievers or, by elision or contraction, be taken as monosyllabic.

1951 Classical Q. New Ser. 1 123 ‘Choriambic dimeters’ of the form   ¯  ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ (with occasional resolution of one of the first two syllables).

1958 A. J. Bliss Metre of Beowulf 27 In Old English verse, a full stress..may..fall on a short syllable followed by another unstressed syllable, usually short, and this phenomenon is known as ‘resolution’.

1998 Stud. Philol. 95 472 One of the most notable characteristics of the Catullan galliambic is the resolution of one of the accented syllables in the second half of the line into two shorts.

†8.

a. Mathematics and Logic. The examination of the truth or falsehood of a proposition by working backwards from a particular conclusion which it entails, and which is known or taken to be true, to a more general principle. Contrasted with composition n. 4a. Cf. analysis n. 5. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > [noun] > logical analysis

partitionc1450

division1551

resolution1557

analytics1574

distribution1588

analysis1756

the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > mathematical enquiry > proposition > proving or checking

resolution1557

construction1570

analysis1649

induction1838

1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Ccii Proue theim bothe by resolution: and then shall you knowe, the reason of their agremente.

1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 9 A demonstration a posteriori, or resolution is, when contrariwise in reasoning, we passe from the last conclusion made by the premisses..til we come to the first principles and grounds.

1599 T. Blundeville Art of Logike v. xix. 145 The other is called resolution, proceeding backward from the last to the first.

1653 Z. Coke Art of Logick 217 Analysis (or resolution) is a Logicall Exercise whereby the Artifices are recognized.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Resolution (in Mathematicks) is a Method of Invention, whereby the Truth or Falshood of a Proposition..is discover'd, in an Order contrary to that of Synthesis, or Composition.

b. Logic. The process of defining something according to its distinguishing features. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > term of a proposition > [noun] > definition > other elements or processes

resolution1842

1842 W. Thomson Outl. Laws of Thought 50 Resolution and Partition. To separate from each other the essential marks of a conception is called the resolution of it.

1853 W. Thomson Outl. Laws of Thought §71. 156 Resolution, when the marks of the definitum are made its definition: as in ‘a pension is an allowance for past services’.

9. Music.

a. The separation of the parts of a canon so that they are given on separate staves instead of being written on a single stave. In later use also: a canon written out in this way.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > writing on separate staves

resolutionc1570

c1570 Art of Music (BL Add. 4911) f. 30, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Resolutio(u)n(e Resolutione..is ane opnyng and furth schawin of obscwir cautionis be Canonis Institut. Quhilkis be way of resolution ar planlye resoluit.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Resolution, in Musick, is when a Canon, or perpetual Fugue is not wrote all on the same Line, or in one Part; but all the Voices that are to follow the Guida, or first Voice, are wrote separately.

1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music (at cited word) Formerly also, a Canon was said to be resolved, or written in Resolution, when instead of being comprised in a single stave, all the parts were given on separate staves.

1829 London Encycl. IV. 87/1 The resolution of a canon into its elements, and reducing it into score, was deemed a work of almost as great difficulty as the original composition.

1971 Musical Times 112 8 In the original, the resolution of the canon is only indicated, not written out.

2003 Jrnl. Musicol. 20 77 Fritzsch published a facsimile of the composer's autograph of the canon ‘Töne, lindernde Klang’... Four years later..Fritzsch published the canon's resolution.

b. The alteration of a discord, or relatively dissonant harmony, so as to form a concord, or relatively more consonant harmony; an instance of this. Cf. resolve v. 12.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > movement of parts > suspension, anticipation, etc.

resolution1721

preparation1728

postposition1730

retardation1730

suspense1737

suspension1786

anticipation1819

triple suspension1876

percussion1880

1721 A. Malcolm Treat. Musick xiii. 437 The Discords..must be succeeded by Concords, commonly call'd the Resolution of the Discord.

1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. vi. 85 The preparation and resolution of the discord into harmony.

1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 50/1 Sometimes the resolution is brought about by the base, as in the instance of the discord of the 2nd.

1889 E. Prout Harmony ix. §198 The interval of a seventh is always a dissonance, and therefore requires resolution—that is, to be followed by a consonance.

1933 Musical Times Feb. 120/1 The grace-notes combine to suggest the Supertonic Minor Ninth, the resolution being upon tonic harmony with accented passing-note D.

1996 R. C. Wegman Born for Muses iv. 119 The unorthodox resolution of a dissonance in bars 17–18..has its parallel in bar 45.

10. Mathematics. The analysis of a force or other vector quantity into two or more components, acting in different directions, which together have the same effect as the original vector.In extended use in quot. 1852.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > different forces with single effect

resolution?1714

?1714 F. Hauksbee Course Exper. Lect. outl., sig. A The Resolution of Forces into those of other Directions.

?1714 F. Hauksbee Course Exper. 1 Which grand Law includes the Composition and Resolution of all Motions whatsoever.

a1738 R. Helsham Course Lect. Nat. Philos. (1739) iv. 55 This composition and resolution of motions and forces, is of singular use in mechanicks.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxii. 181 Legree..governed his plantation by a sort of resolution of forces.

1882 G. M. Minchin Uniplanar Kinematics 1 Linear velocities follow the same laws of composition and resolution as Forces in Statics.

1935 A. H. G. Palmer & K. S. Snell Mechanics i. 7 OA, AP, are called the components of r in the given or opposite directions,..and the resolution is unique.

2006 Current Orthopaedics 20 2/1 The resolution of forces is particularly useful in biomechanics.

III. The action or an act of resolving; determination, resolute temper.

11.

a. The action or (in later use esp.) an act of resolving or determining; something which has been resolved upon; a fixed or positive intention.New Year's resolution: see New Year n. Compounds 3.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > [noun]

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making-up1841

the mind > will > decision > [noun] > (a) resolution or decision

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volition1615

a1475 ( Life St. Alexius (Harl.) in Wiener Beiträge (1905) 21 113 (MED) Eufemyan was right pitous to euerich and..he toke his mete with the religious in the drede of god; And his wyfe..was of the same resolution.

1529 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 4 Aug. (1933) 27 Which resolution his Grace willed me to signifie unto yours.

a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Cii Trust me..I will sacke it, or on this Castle wall, Ile write my resolution with my blood.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 55 Suddenly al the passengers resolued to leaue the ships..; at which resolution the Masters of the ships stormed.

1639 W. Lower Phaenix in her Flames sig. M^v I would rather You would desist from this your resolvtion, And make a tryall of my love and service In any other thing.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iii. 147 M^r Pimm was look'd upon as..not of those furious resolutions against the Church as the other Leading men were.

1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 193. ⁋3 To be praised then every man resolves; but resolutions will not execute themselves.

1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda II. xviii. 196 Nothing could be more prudent, or praiseworthy, than forming such a resolution—except keeping it.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §8. 104 Neither warning nor desertion moved the resolution of the Primate.

1909 Chatterbox 94/1 Marion and Binkey make a resolution which they endeavoured to carry out.

1930 H. Garland Roadside Meetings xxix. 378 ‘Henceforth I am the novelist,’ was my definite resolution.

1990 S. King Stand (new ed.) ii. liii. 759 Were his good resolutions about Harold, made only the day before yesterday, already going by the boards?

2007 Independent on Sunday 30 Dec. (New Review) 33/2 Every New Year I make a list of resolutions that I then fail miserably to uphold.

b. With of, †for, or to and infinitive.

ΚΠ

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iv. sig. Mm2^v The resolucion to dye had repossessed his place in her minde.

1586 Bp. of Meath Let. to Ld. Burghley in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1824) III. ii. 411 Your resolution for the referment of my cause back again to my lord deputy doth much grieve and discomfort me.

1633 J. Ford Broken Heart i. i. sig. B1 A resolution for a lasting league Betwixt your Families was entertain'd.

1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Dying iv. §6 Repentance..productive of fixed Resolutions of holy Living.

1699 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 473 The old East India company have agreed this day to a resolution for a coalition with the new company.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iii. 152 A sincere resolution of Amity and Union between the two Nations.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 7. ⁋24 He hopes they will come to a Resolution to send for no more Bulls to Rome.

1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World vi. 194 Seeing their fore-castle..full of men..I concluded they had now come to a resolution of entering us.

1792 J. Almon Anecd. Life W. Pitt (octavo ed.) I. xx. 309 Pitt communicated to the Cabinet his resolution of attacking Spain.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality x, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 228 He..formed the resolution of guiding himself by the circumstances in which he might discover the object of his quest.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. v. 202 The Nabob,..fully persuaded of the resolution of the Council to depose him [etc.].

1904 Daily Graphic 8 Dec. 4/1 The Pentecostal Dancers..have maintained their steadfast resolution of dancing themselves into the hearts of their audiences.

1962 L. Namier Crossroads of Power xix. 201 It is my firm resolution to act the part of a man of business and a man of honor.

1979 Times 19 Nov. (Obituaries Suppl.) p. vii She [sc. Mary Pickford] was persuaded to relent her former resolution to destroy all her films.

2008 Pretoria News (Nexis) 7 Mar. 1 Our members want to hear an acknowledgement of the crime problem and a firm resolution to deal with it.

†12.

a. The removal of doubt in regard to a particular matter. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > [noun] > by removal of doubt or scruple

contentation1533

resolution1578

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball To Rdr. For thy instruction and resolution in these matters I referre the to the same Authors.

1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) iii. 73 A German Monke adviseth him that doubteth of Purgatory, for his resolution to make his iourney into Scotland the greater.

1644 J. Cotton Keyes Kingdom Heaven iv. 18 The Church of Antioch sent messengers to Jerusalem for resolution and satisfaction in a doubt that troubled them.

b. Confidence; conviction, certainty, positive knowledge. Obsolete.In quot. 1608: a state of conviction.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > [noun]

sickerlaika1225

sickerness?c1225

sickerheadc1250

boldness1330

certaintya1340

traistc1340

assurancec1374

certain138.

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surancea1450

affiancec1460

certitude?a1475

resting?a1475

security1535

firmancec1540

confidence1555

assuredness1561

resolution1590

plerophory1598

reliance1606

undoubtfulness1619

positiveness1711

positivity1741

decidedness1800

positivism1842

undoubtingness1857

inexpugnability1864

1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 53* I haue such resolution in thy constancie, that [etc.].

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vi. xxxi. 148 As little resolution and certaintie there is [regarding the Hesperides], as touching the Islands of Mauritania.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 100 I would vnstate my selfe to be in a due resolution .

13.

a. Determination; firmness or steadfastness of purpose; the possession of a resolute or unyielding cast of mind.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > resolution or determination > [noun]

willOE

businessa1387

wilfulnessc1386

restc1400

point1477

appointmenta1535

firmitude?1541

resoluteness?1560

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determinedness1747

decision1770

decidedness1800

setness1818

determinativeness1821

determination1822

virtu1876

the courage of one's convictions or opinions1878

self-determination1890

adamancy1898

drivenness1902

adamance1925

the mind > language > statement > [noun] > a statement or declaration

pretence1440

mentiona1470

profession1526

resolution1594

definitive1595

propound1599

enunciation1628

expression1635

express1646

declarative1651

assert1655

statement1775

enouncementa1856

sayable1957

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. D1^v My will is backt with resolution .

1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iii. i. 237 Thy griefe, their sports: Thy resolution mockt.

1636 E. Dacres tr. N. Machiavel Disc. Livy II. 329 On each part he makes the Armyes equall for their order, valour, resolution, and number.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 541 He comes, and settl'd in his face I see Sad resolution and secure.

1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Matt. iv. 10 A great Temptation must be withstood with great Resolution.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1754 I. 145 [Johnson] He was..a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself.

1812 P. B. Shelley Let. 17 Dec. (1964) I. 341 Mrs. Shelley is attacking Latin with considerable resolution.

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood vii. 45 You seem to have resolution and power enough to crush me.

1921 L. Strachey Queen Victoria iii. 35 She..braced herself, with royal resolution, for the odious, odious interview.

1973 C. C. Trench George II xiv. 220 Having behaved all day like a hero,..he lacked the resolution now to press on to the enemy's destruction.

2003 Nation (N.Y.) 7 Apr. 5/2 As the British prime minister walked to the despatch box..he had the grim resolution of a man strapping on his six-shooter.

†b. A resolute person. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > resolution or determination > [noun] > resolute or determined person

resolute1578

resolution1643

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. 3 Yet have I not so shaken hands with those desperate Resolutions [1642 Resolvers], who had rather venture at large their decaied bottome, then bring her in to be new trim'd in the dock.

IV. Solving, answering, formal declaration, and related senses.

14.

(a) The action or an act of finding the answer to a question, the solution to a problem, etc.; the elimination or easing of doubt. Also: the fact of such an answer, solution, etc., having been found.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun]

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reanswer1599

responsure1600

answerage1642

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

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way1574

resolvea1630

solving1706

solve1780

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > resolving of problem, solution > [noun]

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resolutiona1500

soluting1534

satisfactiona1569

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assoiling1619

assoilmenta1680

solving1706

problem-solving1854

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 52 (MED) Thy holy resolucions [Fr. resolutions] haue meked my thought to vndirstonde and feele the dyvine iustice.

1525 in W. Fraser Douglas Bk. (1885) IV. 101 Gif I have nocht done my uter power to bring all materis..to ane gude and fynale resolucioune.

1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Eviii^v I wyl addresse me to the ful answere and resolution of the same.

1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 275 In resolution of the question of universall Redemption.

1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 350 For a resolution of this enquiry, the case of Abraham will be of great use to us.

1836 O. W. Holmes in Libr. Pract. Med. VII. 247 This question is almost always susceptible of resolution by careful examination.

1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. x. 181 Several antagonist theories have been promulgated in attempted resolution of the puzzle.

1898 Amer. Hist. Rev. 3 711 The resolution of the paradox is to be found in the fact that he has chosen for his study a period in which [etc.].

1931 C. C. Pratt Meaning of Music i. 36 Until some happy resolution of the difficulty is arrived at, it is best simply to recognize the problem, and then avoid its complications as far as possible.

1974 R. Heilbroner Human Prospect iv. 100 The resolution of the crises thrust upon us by the social and natural environment can only be found through political action.

2000 R. King Brunelleschi's Dome (2001) iv. 38 Also essential to the project was the resolution of a difficulty not fully considered by Neri and his group.

(b) Mathematics. The process of solving a mathematical problem; spec. the solving of an equation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > mathematical enquiry > result of

resolution1579

result1637

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 27 [He] gathered it out by certaine accidents, as they doe in the resolutions [Fr. resolutions] of certaine geometricall questions.

1636 J. Mellis Record's Ground of Artes 160 For the resolution whereof, and of all such other like, reduce 23 pound 8 shillings, all into shillings.

1647 W. Oughtred (title) The key of the mathematicks new forged and filed: together with a treatise of the resolution of all kinde of affected æquations in numbers.

1670 I. Newton Let. Jan. in Corr. (1959) I. 19 As to your other Problem about ye resolution of Equations by tables.

1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. 317 (heading) Concerning the resolution of the more considerable Problems of the First Motion by Calculation.

1776 H. Watson tr. L. Euler Compl. Theory Vessels ii. iv. 105 The unraveling of this Question depends upon the Resolution of the following Equation of the 4th Degree.

1846 C. Davies Elem. Algebra vii. 148 They are called imaginary quantities..and are frequently met with in the resolution of equations of the second degree.

1898 Amer. Math. Monthly 5 283 The two final lectures are devoted to the resolution of numerical equations.

1923 J. Hadamard Lect. Cauchy's Probl. ii. ii. 69 In order to obtain the required value of u, they had to be followed..by the resolution of more or less complicated integral equations.

2008 Sci. Amer. Mar. 51/1 Goldbach's conjecture or the Riemann hypothesis, both of which have resisted resolution for well over a century.

(c) The reconciliation of conflicting views or parties in regard to a matter; the settlement of a dispute or conflict.conflict resolution: see conflict n. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > [noun] > settling quarrels or disputes

reckoning1488

composing1574

compounding1601

atonement1605

composure1640

compositiona1654

sopiting1659

resolution1890

alternative dispute resolution1980

1890 Spectator 15 Mar. 362/1 The Italian Government, though it is strong, hardly hopes to see a resolution of its quarrel with the Papacy.

1957 R. D. Luce & H. Raiffa Games & Decisions i. 10 Game Theory is a model for situations of conflict among several people, in which two principal modes of resolution are collusion and conciliation.

1987 M. Rustin & M. Rustin Narratives Love & Loss 3 These stories are about the representation of feeling, and about the resolution of conflicts of feeling.

1997 J. Bowker World Relig. 107/2 The turf of the Naga hillside is burned by people wearing warrior monk costumes, to celebrate the resolution of a dispute between two local temples.

†b. An answer, an explanation. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

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

answerOE

solutionc1384

resolutiona1542

sol1588

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éclaircissement1673

fix1882

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > resolving of problem, solution > [noun] > instance of

keyeOE

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a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) viii. 147 ‘It liketh me’ (quod she) ‘to have herd your question: But lenger tyme doth aske resolution.’

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. v. xii. 86 Rhodon promised also..to publish the resolutions of his Problemes. His commentaries vpon the six dayes workes, are at this day extant.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 6 Your resolutions, doe me content so well, That I delight..to aske.

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §9 I can answer all the objections..with that odde resolution I learned of Tertullian, certum est quia impossibile est .

†c. of hard (easy, etc.) resolution: hard (or easy, etc.) to resolve. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > resolving of problem, solution > [adjective] > capable of being resolved > in specific way

of hard (easy, etc.) resolution1645

1645 D. North Forest of Varieties ii. 134 To..make things otherwise of easie resolution anxious, and vexing.

1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall ii. 19 How the Romanes left so many Coynes..seems of hard resolution.

1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. i. i. 110 A strange dispute, and of most easie resolution.

1784 S. Horsley Lett. in Reply Dr. Priestley xii. 100 A question might indeed arise, which might be of difficult resolution; why was this doctrine, for a certain time, kept back?

15.

a. A formal decision, determination, or expression of opinion by a deliberative assembly, committee, court, public meeting, etc. (in early use also by an individual).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > [noun] > a judgement, ruling

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verdictc1386

determination1395

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resolution1545

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resultance1610

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placit1641

pronounce1641

placitum1649

vardy1738

deliverance1856

the mind > will > decision > [noun] > (a) resolution or decision > formal or collective

resolution1545

resolve1649

executive decision1891

1545 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 15 Nov. (1933) 194 The articles offred by Skore..shalbe answered with the resolution taken at the Dyet.

1572 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 16 May 2 f. 45 Upon the question all the house thought yt that the generll resolution is metest to be synified unto her m^tie.

1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 1055 The Lord hath giuen a generall resolution, that no man can enter into the kingdome of heauen, vnles [etc.].

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 143 He speaketh so confidently thereof, as I will not altogether discredit his resolution in this behalfe.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxii. 119 Present at all the Deliberations, and Resolutions of the Body.

1674 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 197 [He] promiseth to give his resolution about y^e petitioners before his departure.

1705 A. Furly in J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain (1707) 13 It having been offer'd to our Consideration, whether the Siege..ought to be undertaken, and the Opinions of every General Officer having been asked, they are come to this unanimous Resolution.

1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xlviii. 181 Yet now you confess that parliaments are fallible, and that their resolutions may be illegal.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) VI. 506 The established law in cases of this nature was according to the resolution in the Duke of Norfolk's case.

1900 H. L. Thompson Christ Church ix. 190 The next step was for the Dean to convene the chapter and announce to them the resolution arrived at.

1933 W. W. Folwell Autobiogr. & Lett. iv. 53 The resolution of the council was that I might try it at Geneva for a year.

1995 San Jose Mercury News (Nexis) 28 Dec. 22 a In a six-page resolution Wednesday, the tribunal said judges gave ‘laconic’ and ‘evasive’ replies to questioning over the incident.

b. A formulation of such a determination, expression of opinion, etc., submitted to an assembly or meeting for consideration.

ΚΠ

1663 J. Heath Brief Chron. Late Intestine Warr (new ed.) f. 745 That all Votes, Acts, and Resolutions passed by any Members of Parliament, when the rest were detained from, or taken out of the House, should be null and void.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 72. ¶5 This Resolution passed in a general Club Nemine Contradicente.

1772 in W. Smith Ahiman Rezon (1783) iii. 95 Received and read the resolutions of the Grand Lodge of England, transmitted by their Grand Secretary, Brother William Dickey.

1800 T. Jefferson Let. Dec. in E. Pendleton Lett. & Papers (1967) II. 686 Would the preamble of the resolution be first amended according to the natural order?

1806 Monthly Mag. June 481/1 At a recent meeting of..wool growers of Glamorganshire, resolutions were adopted for establishing a wool-fair in that county.

1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) iv. 41 To hold a meeting..in order to prepare resolutions to be laid before the masters.

1884 Manch. Examiner 7 July 4/6 The hon. gentlemen spoke to a resolution congratulating the Government on the passing of the Franchise Bill.

1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 110/2 The famous Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions drafted by Jefferson and Madison.

1943 M. Samuel tr. S. Asch Apostle i. viii. 95 That morning there was adopted, with little debate, the resolution to intercalate an extra month in the calendar.

1989 M. Mathabane Kaffir Boy in Amer. (1990) v. 37 The United Nations Security Council had finally adopted Resolution 435, detailing a plan for Namibian independence.

2003 N. Smart Brit. Strategy & Politics during Phony War vii. 240 He proceeded to read out the resolution his executive had adopted.

†16. An explanatory account of something. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun] > an explanation, exposition, account

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resolution1582

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1582 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 536 [The safeconduct had been obtained, and directed to him] togidder with a resolution of the forme and tyme appointit for his departing.

1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall ii. 25 We much deplore the losse of that Letter which Cicero expected or received from his Brother Quintus, as a resolution of Brittish customes.

17. The climax or denouement of a play, novel, or other narrative work, in which plot elements are brought to a conclusion.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > plot > dénouement

untying1598

unravelling1606

discovery1668

unravelment1705

dénouement1752

resolution1846

pay-off1947

1846 A. J. W. Morrison tr. H. Ulrici Shakspere's Dramatic Art iii. 147 The march, complication, and final resolution of the dramatic action.

1890 R. G. Moulton Anc. Classical Drama iv. 188 One plot is complete with the resolution.

1913 J. B. Opdycke Composition Planning xiii. 255 The conclusion to most stories can be gracefully absorbed in the resolution and this should always be attempted.

1963 PMLA 78 105/1 To call into doubt that novel's resolution is to question the structure and meaning of the whole book.

1995 New Scientist 8 July 47/1 The narrative rules of the ‘story arc’ which takes movie plots to a satisfying resolution.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	resolution
释义	resolutionn.¹ Brit. /ˌrɛzəˈl(j)uːʃn/, U.S. /ˌrɛzəˈluʃ(ə)n/ Forms: Middle English resolucioun, Middle English resolucyoun, Middle English–1600s resolucion, Middle English– resolution, 1500s resolucyon, 1600s resolvtion; Scottish pre-1700 resollowtioune, pre-1700 resollution, pre-1700 resolucion, pre-1700 resolucioun, pre-1700 resolucioune, pre-1700 resolutione, pre-1700 resolutioun, pre-1700 resolutioune, pre-1700 resolwsion, pre-1700 1700s– resolution; N.E.D. (1908) also records a form late Middle English resolucyon. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French resolution; Latin resolūtiōn-, resolūtiō. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French resolucion, resolution (French résolution ) reduction or separation of a material object into its component parts or elements (a1280 in Old French), return of a swollen or inflamed organ or part of the body to its normal state (1314), decision (c1370), elimination or easing of doubt (1422 in the passage translated in quot. a1500 at sense 14a(a)), formal decision or expression of opinion by a deliberative assembly, committee, court, etc. (1534), process of solving a mathematical problem (1565 in the passage translated in quot. 1579 at sense 14a(b)), determination, firmness of purpose (1580) and its etymon classical Latin resolūtiōn-, resolūtiō action of untying or unfastening, unravelling (of a puzzle), limp or relaxed state, looseness, cancellation, annulment (2nd or 3rd cent. a.d.), in post-classical Latin also death (Vulgate), breaking up of metrical structure (4th cent.), analytical proof by induction (4th or 5th cent.), (in alchemy) solution (13th cent. in a British source), removal of doubt (1552 in a British source in resolutio dubitationis ), decision (a1564) < resolūt- , past participial stem of resolvere resolve v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare Catalan resolució (15th cent.), Spanish resolución (a1418), Portuguese resolução (15th cent.), Italian risoluzione (1310; end of the 13th cent. as †resolutione ; also †resoluzione ). Compare resolving n. and solution n., and also resolve v.Many senses of the English noun are not paralleled in French until later, e.g.: substance resulting from a process of decomposition (a1500), solving of a difficulty or problem (16th cent.), relaxation of tension (1572), process of reducing a non-material object into a simpler form or forms, or of converting it into some other thing or form (1647), consumption (1680), separation of the parts of a canon (1721), alteration of a discord or relatively dissonant harmony (1842), solution of an equation (1845), (in prosody, originally and chiefly with reference to Greek and Latin) substitution of two short syllables for a simple long one (1862 or earlier). With later spec. use in sense 7b with reference to early Germanic prosody compare German Auflosung (1885 or earlier in this spec. use). I. Physical conversion, dissolution, or separation. 1. a. The reduction or separation of an object or substance into constituent parts or elements; decomposition, disintegration, dispersion. Formerly also: †a material result of this, spec. a smoke or vapour (obsolete). Now rare.In extended use in quot. 1856. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [noun] resolutiona1398 resolvinga1398 anatomya1569 analysis1588 analysing1600 retexture1620 principiationa1626 solution1655 analysation1698 decomposure1744 decomposition1762 disarticulation1902 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 137 By resolucioun þerof [L. per sui resolucionem] and departinge and turnynge in to reyne oþir dewe, þe raynbow quikeþ and byspringiþ þe neþir þynges. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 5925 (MED) Þe sacrid fire Ne wolde brenne..þei ne myȝt se Nouȝt but smoky resoluciouns, Horrible and blak. a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxxi. sig. l.iii Our sauiour..preserued her body..Both hole and sounde, from naturall resolucion. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 211 It dooth..preserue the same from resolution and putrefaction. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §400 The Immediate Cause of Death, is the Resolution or Extinguishment of the Spirits. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iii. vi. 278 The Resolution or Maceration of Frogs and Worms will reproduce Individuals of the same species. 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 230 By their Resolution, or the true Anatomy I made of them, I found them to be compos'd of much Sulphur, a little Mercury, and less Salt. 1794 J. Hutton Diss. Philos. Light 297 The decomposition or resolution of phlogistic substances..is now well understood. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 9 The high temperature maintained in the stomach..produces a concoctive resolution. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits iv. 55 All our experience is of the gradation and resolution of races. 1909 Science 9 Apr. 598/1 Creatin is liberated by the disintegrating muscle... Here creatin is a product both of metabolism and of tissue resolution. b. Reduction or separation of an object into (formerly †to) constituent parts; analysis of a mixed or compound substance by separation into components. Occasionally also: conversion to a different form or state (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun] > change into reduction1605 deduction1650 resolution1659 conversion1661 ?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. Av^v Corrupcyon of a body..ys but the resolucyon..Of euery element to his owne place. 1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (xc. 3 Annot.) 454/2 The resolution of the body to dust, may be fitly exprest. 1691 H. Gregg Curiosities in Chymistry 26 All Alcalies, even the purest, are endow'd with so much of a Seminal Acid, as does indeed preserve them from a Spontaneous resolution, into Elementary Water. 1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 51 The attempts made to analyse vegetable substances previous to 1720, merely produced their resolution into the supposed elements of the chemists of those days. 1928 Lancet 31 Mar. 666/1 Anything which tends to delay the corruption of a corpse and its resolution into its constituent elements is to be deprecated. 1971 Biogr. Mem. Fellows Royal Soc. 17 624 The resolution of quassia extract into its two major components, quassin and neo-quassin. c. Chemistry. The process of separating a racemic compound or mixture into its component optical isomers. ΚΠ 1878 C. A. M. Tidy Handbk. Mod. Chem. xxiv. 622 It [sc. meso-tartaric acid] differs from..paratartaric or racemic acid, which is also without action on a polarized ray, but which is a compound of dextro- and lævo-tartaric acid, and is capable of resolution into these two modifications of the acid. 1914 Chem. Abstr. 8 2716 (heading) Resolution of racemic saccharides by means of optically active amyl mercaptan, and some mercaptals. 1983 R. O. C. Norman & D. J. Waddington Mod. Org. Chem. (ed. 4) xv. 245 Racemisation is the opposite of resolution; that is, it consists of the formation of equal amounts of a pair of enantiomers from either of the two. 2008 Biotech Week (Nexis) 20 Aug. 1574 A high-performance liquid chromatographic method has been developed for resolution of the structural isomers of fexofenadine hydrochloride in the bulk drug. 2. Medicine. †a. Dispersal or dissolution of humours or morbid material; softening of a hardened mass in the body; an instance of this. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > [noun] > dispersing, etc., of humours or morbid matter resolvinga1398 attractiona1400 resolutiona1400 repercussion?a1425 eduction?c1425 discussion1583 repulsion1583 epicrasis1592 derivation1600 expurgation1615 attractation1616 incision1626 diversion1656 dispersion1753 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 353 It wole make þe mater mollificatif & make þe poris open to resolucioun. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 22^v (MED) Apostemez..bene mynushed by insensible resolucioun or bi putrefaccioun or bi induracioun. 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ii. f. 65/2 It causeth the humours to breath out wyth gentyll resolution, and sedation of payne. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 190 Through paruity of exercise, and resolution of superfluous matter by the pores many crude..humours are bred. 1749 T. Gataker tr. H. F. Le Dran Operations Surg. 12 Resolution is a motion in the obstructed fluids, which causes part to transpire through the pores, and the rest to enter again into the course of the circulation. 1778 R. James Diss. Fevers (ed. 8) 7 To bring about a concretion or resolution of the humours which excited the fever. †b. Conversion to pus; suppuration. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] festeringa1400 maturation?a1425 rankling?a1425 suppuration?a1425 whealingc1440 mattering?c1450 rancouring1567 suppurating1589 resolution1598 empyema1655 pyosis1684 pyogenesis1848 assimilation1864 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. iv. i. f. 17^v/1 The suppuratione, or resolutione to matter beinge finished [Fr. Quand la suppuration est parfaicte & acheuee]. 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. iv. iii. 253 If..the Strume[be] recent and but moderately hard, the Resolution or Suppuration of them is seizable. c. The subsiding or cessation of a pathological process, disease, symptom, etc.; spec. the termination of inflammation, esp. without suppuration or permanent damage to tissue. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > inflammation > [noun] > disappearance without suppuration resolution1777 1777 W. Cullen First Lines Pract. Physic I. ii. i. §244. 191 If an inflammation be cured while the state and texture of the part remain entire, the disease is said to be terminated by Resolution. 1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 790/2 Resolution is not only the most favourable, but the most common termination of inflammation. 1893 Lancet 25 Feb. 408/1 Other changes may take place, resulting in the formation of cicatricial tissue, but resolution may follow without any alteration of structure. 1937 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 37 374/2 General symptoms or their absence, while of great value, do not tell us with certainty when complete and permanent resolution of disease has been accomplished. 1992 D. P. Speert in C. E. Lewis & J. O'D. McGee Macrophage v. 219 Upon resolution of the infection, new monocytes are no longer recruited. 2004 Jrnl. Infection 49 306/2 They studied 126 ambulatory patients and defined cure as the time to resolution of all five symptoms. †3. a. Death; = dissolution n. 8. Chiefly in the time of a person's resolution (esp. in echoes of 2 Timothy 4:6). Obsolete. 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 a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) 2 Tim. iv. 6 Þe tyme of my resolucyoun [L. resolutionis] instandys. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 57 (MED) Poul seith in the same epistle that tyme of his resolucioun (that is to seie of the departing bitwixe his bodi and his soule) was than neiȝe. c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 536 (MED) God made..Be an angel hys spirit to conveye..Affter his bodyly resolucyoun..to the hevenly mansioun. 1513 Life Henry V (1911) 182 When this..Kinge was vndoubtedly acertained of his phisicions that the time of his resolucion approached. 1582 Bible (Rheims) 2 Tim. iv. 6 The time of my resolution [1611 departure] is at hand. 1592 T. Rogers tr. Thomas à Kempis Soliloquium Animae vii. 44 In this hope I flie vnto thee, vntill the last houre and time of my resolution shall come. b. A state of bodily dissolution or decay. Obsolete. rare. 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 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. ii. xiv. 184 Þe membris..brocht baith þame self and all þe body to extreme resolucioun [L. tabem]. 4. Medicine. Weakening or softening of the body or a part; spec. paralysis or paresis of a muscle; an instance of this. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakness faintise1297 weaknessa1300 faintc1320 feebleness1340 languishingc1384 lamea1400 unferea1400 unferenessa1400 unwielda1400 impotence1406 imbecility?a1425 languisha1425 languoringa1438 unwieldness1437 faintnessa1440 impotency1440 infirmityc1440 debility1484 unlustiness1486 resolution1547 unwieldiness1575 languishment1576 infirmness1596 weakness1603 prostrationa1626 exolution1634 languidness1634 prosternation1650 faintingnessa1661 debilitude1669 flaccidity1676 atony1693 puniness1727 faintishness1733 adynamia1743 asthenia1802 adynamy1817 weakliness1826 tonelessness1873 atonicity1900 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. Cvi A palsey doth come..by resolucion or els compression of the neruouse or sinewes. 1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes xvi. f. xcvi^v What resolution, and as it were a meltinge of his bodye and bowelles. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 49 Those that haue the palsie or resolution of the nerues. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. E5^v Fear..causeth loosenesse, resolution of the muscles, and sometimes death with a small pulse. 1704 tr. G. Baglivi Pract. Physick i. ix. 101 Apoplectick persons seldom get clear without the Resolution of some Part; and if all their Members are seiz'd in that Paralytick way they re soon carryed off. 1779 S. Johnson Let. 23 June (1992) III. 175 Weariness is itself a temporary resolution of the nerves. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 618 Owing to the complete muscular ‘resolution’ the cheeks will be flaccid. 1923 Internat. Clin. 31st Ser. 4 113 In other cases muscular resolution was more marked on one side of the body. 1958 Electroencephalogr. & Clin. Neurophysiol. 10 612/1 The subject remains in a state of muscular resolution. †5. Transformation into a liquid; liquefaction, condensation. Obsolete. rare. 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 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. x. 77 In the hoat springes of extreme cold countries, where the first heates are vnsufferable; which proceede out of the resolution of humidity congealed. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. ii. 174 It must be caused by the resolution of the Snow which was dissolved the Week before. 6. a. Originally: the effect of a telescope in making the stars of a nebula distinguishable by the eye. Later more widely: the process or capability of rendering distinguishable the component parts of an object or image; a measure of this, expressed as the smallest separation so distinguishable, or as the number of pixels that form an image; the degree of detail with which an image can be reproduced; = resolving power n. (b) at resolving n. Compounds.high-, range resolution: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > [noun] > capability of distinguishing or separating resolving power1664 resolution1831 the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [noun] > resolution or rendering distinguishable resolution1831 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [noun] > qualities of lenses power1673 refracting angle1676 resolution1831 depth of focus1852 astigmatism1859 aplanatism1869 apochromatism1887 covering power1895 coverage1936 asphericity1944 parfocality1955 1831 Philos. Mag. 2nd Ser. 9 45 Messier's 22nd nebula is resolved by Sir James South's telescope into an immense number of brilliant small stars. In Mr. Barlow's telescope the same resolution is effected. 1852 D. Olmsted in O. M. Mitchell Orbs of Heaven App. 300 The resolution of this nebula has been the signal for the renunciation of Herschel's nebular hypothesis. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 776 A resolving power of 100,000 would suffice for the resolution of the closest lines in the spectrum. 1954 Jrnl. Paleontol. 28 396/1 Some of the characters are so small as to be near the limit of resolution of an ordinary microscope. 1962 Which? Mar. 70/1 We measured the resolution. This is the ability of the projector to reproduce fine detail. 1997 Chicago Tribune 14 Dec. iv. 7 (advt.) Olympus D-220L Digital Camera. 640 x 480 Resolution. 2006 Which Digital Camera? Mar. 3/1 As resolution increases, so too does the need for bigger media cards. b. The ability of a device to respond to small differences in input and to indicate or represent them accurately in output; a measure of this, expressed as the smallest difference so distinguishable. More widely: discrimination or distinction between things that are close together in space or time. ΚΠ 1931 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 132 307 The ‘resolution’ (i.e., the smallest interval of time by which two impulses could be separated and still be separately recorded) of the relay ring..was between 1/100th and 1/200th second. 1949 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 136 402 Their slower contraction makes the resolution in time of rapid events much easier. 1968 Brit. Med. Bull. 24 255/1 This provides 8-bit resolution for the input samples. 1972 Sci. Amer. July 19/3 A 1,000 kilohertz..sonar would provide a resolution of 30 centimeters on a target 200 meters away. 1984 J. J. Lowe & M. J. C. Walker Reconstructing Quaternary Environments iii. 127 Data from cave speleothems should provide considerably better resolution in time than those obtained from ocean sediments. 1995 J. Shreeve Neandertal Enigma (1996) vii. 195 Some researchers have contended that the coexistence..is merely an illusion created by the poor resolution offered by the archaeological record. II. Breaking up or conversion of a non-material thing. 7. a. The process of reducing a non-material thing into a simpler form or forms, or of converting it into some other thing or form; an instance of this. Frequently (now usually) with into (formerly sometimes †in). ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun] overchangingc1384 transmutation1398 permutationa1425 transforming1435 resolutiona1450 translating1503 resolvinga1513 conversion1549 transposing1550 conversationa1570 transmuting1579 projection?1583 transmigration1618 version1626 transversion1656 transmogrification1661 converting1711 metamorphosing1730 metastasis1818 turn-over1825 interconversion1865 transnaturation1873 transmorphism1888 segue1945 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [noun] > specific something immaterial resolutiona1450 a1450 (a1397) Prol. Old Test. in Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Cambr. Mm.2.15) (1850) xv. 57 In translating into English, manie resolucions moun make the sentence open, as an ablatif case absolute may be resoluid into these thre wordis, with couenable verbe—the while, for, if. a1450 (a1397) Prol. Old Test. in Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Cambr. Mm.2.15) (1850) xv. 57 I Englishe it thus bi resolucioun. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 79 The pronownes derivatyves have thre accidentes,..by whiche their gendre and nombre is expressed, and resolucyon in to their primityves. 1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 9 The first principles and grounds, which are indemonstrable, and for theyr simplicity can suffer no farther resolution. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Annot. sig. ¶4^v Black or halfe black ligatures,..with the resolution of the same in other common notes. 1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon vii. 44 What that Cath. Church is, into the authority whereof they make the last resolution of their Faith. 1660 R. Coke Justice Vindicated Pref. 12 This sensless resolution of all things into Reason. 1742 A. Pope Dunciad iv. in Wks. III. 40 This was not a Metamorphosis either in one or the other, but only a Resolution of the Soul into its true Principles, its real Essence being Harmony. 1786 J. H. Tooke Επεα Πτεροεντα vi. 134 Though your method of resolution will answer with most sentences, yet I doubt much whether it will with all. 1797 Encycl. Brit. X. 193/2 Of the Composition and Resolutions of our Ideas, and the Rules of Definition thence arising. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 181 The resolution of the apparent motions of the heavenly bodies into an assemblage of circular motions. 1845 Proc. Philol. Soc. 2 167 This form furnishes a complete and intelligible resolution of the phrase. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 11 The resolution of justice into two unconnected precepts. 1926 G. N. Lewis Anat. Sci. v. 123 The resolution of the phenomenon of light into its two aspects..promises to be extremely useful. a1931 G. H. Mead Philos. of Act (1938) iii. 62 Nothing would more completely squeeze the interest out of his world than the resolution of it into the data of observation. 2001 R. Terada Feeling in Theory 62 The gradual resolution of an uncertain feeling into a named emotion is sealed..when the sculptor encounters his finished statue. b. Prosody. The substitution of two short syllables for a single long one; the result of such a substitution. Later also (in early Germanic prosody): the phenomenon whereby two syllables (the first of which must be short) may in certain circumstances be regarded as equivalent to a single long one. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [noun] > quantity > substitution of long or short syllables anaclasis1784 resolution1814 contraction1884 1814 Classical Jrnl. June 375 A tribrachys..is a resolution of an iambus. 1843 W. O'Brien Anc. Rhythmical Art Recovered iv. 108 The resolution of the long syllables in verse 6 seems intended for the expression of tumult and rapid flight. 1884 F. De F. Allen Hadley's Greek Gram. (rev. ed.) §1080 A tribrach stands by resolution in place of the first trochee. 1948 Mod. Philol. 46 88/2 Some of these first words may by the ‘resolution’ of Sievers or, by elision or contraction, be taken as monosyllabic. 1951 Classical Q. New Ser. 1 123 ‘Choriambic dimeters’ of the form   ¯  ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ (with occasional resolution of one of the first two syllables). 1958 A. J. Bliss Metre of Beowulf 27 In Old English verse, a full stress..may..fall on a short syllable followed by another unstressed syllable, usually short, and this phenomenon is known as ‘resolution’. 1998 Stud. Philol. 95 472 One of the most notable characteristics of the Catullan galliambic is the resolution of one of the accented syllables in the second half of the line into two shorts. †8. a. Mathematics and Logic. The examination of the truth or falsehood of a proposition by working backwards from a particular conclusion which it entails, and which is known or taken to be true, to a more general principle. Contrasted with composition n. 4a. Cf. analysis n. 5. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > [noun] > logical analysis partitionc1450 division1551 resolution1557 analytics1574 distribution1588 analysis1756 the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > mathematical enquiry > proposition > proving or checking resolution1557 construction1570 analysis1649 induction1838 1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Ccii Proue theim bothe by resolution: and then shall you knowe, the reason of their agremente. 1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 9 A demonstration a posteriori, or resolution is, when contrariwise in reasoning, we passe from the last conclusion made by the premisses..til we come to the first principles and grounds. 1599 T. Blundeville Art of Logike v. xix. 145 The other is called resolution, proceeding backward from the last to the first. 1653 Z. Coke Art of Logick 217 Analysis (or resolution) is a Logicall Exercise whereby the Artifices are recognized. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Resolution (in Mathematicks) is a Method of Invention, whereby the Truth or Falshood of a Proposition..is discover'd, in an Order contrary to that of Synthesis, or Composition. b. Logic. The process of defining something according to its distinguishing features. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > term of a proposition > [noun] > definition > other elements or processes resolution1842 1842 W. Thomson Outl. Laws of Thought 50 Resolution and Partition. To separate from each other the essential marks of a conception is called the resolution of it. 1853 W. Thomson Outl. Laws of Thought §71. 156 Resolution, when the marks of the definitum are made its definition: as in ‘a pension is an allowance for past services’. 9. Music. a. The separation of the parts of a canon so that they are given on separate staves instead of being written on a single stave. In later use also: a canon written out in this way. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > writing on separate staves resolutionc1570 c1570 Art of Music (BL Add. 4911) f. 30, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Resolutio(u)n(e Resolutione..is ane opnyng and furth schawin of obscwir cautionis be Canonis Institut. Quhilkis be way of resolution ar planlye resoluit. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Resolution, in Musick, is when a Canon, or perpetual Fugue is not wrote all on the same Line, or in one Part; but all the Voices that are to follow the Guida, or first Voice, are wrote separately. 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music (at cited word) Formerly also, a Canon was said to be resolved, or written in Resolution, when instead of being comprised in a single stave, all the parts were given on separate staves. 1829 London Encycl. IV. 87/1 The resolution of a canon into its elements, and reducing it into score, was deemed a work of almost as great difficulty as the original composition. 1971 Musical Times 112 8 In the original, the resolution of the canon is only indicated, not written out. 2003 Jrnl. Musicol. 20 77 Fritzsch published a facsimile of the composer's autograph of the canon ‘Töne, lindernde Klang’... Four years later..Fritzsch published the canon's resolution. b. The alteration of a discord, or relatively dissonant harmony, so as to form a concord, or relatively more consonant harmony; an instance of this. Cf. resolve v. 12. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > movement of parts > suspension, anticipation, etc. resolution1721 preparation1728 postposition1730 retardation1730 suspense1737 suspension1786 anticipation1819 triple suspension1876 percussion1880 1721 A. Malcolm Treat. Musick xiii. 437 The Discords..must be succeeded by Concords, commonly call'd the Resolution of the Discord. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. vi. 85 The preparation and resolution of the discord into harmony. 1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 50/1 Sometimes the resolution is brought about by the base, as in the instance of the discord of the 2nd. 1889 E. Prout Harmony ix. §198 The interval of a seventh is always a dissonance, and therefore requires resolution—that is, to be followed by a consonance. 1933 Musical Times Feb. 120/1 The grace-notes combine to suggest the Supertonic Minor Ninth, the resolution being upon tonic harmony with accented passing-note D. 1996 R. C. Wegman Born for Muses iv. 119 The unorthodox resolution of a dissonance in bars 17–18..has its parallel in bar 45. 10. Mathematics. The analysis of a force or other vector quantity into two or more components, acting in different directions, which together have the same effect as the original vector.In extended use in quot. 1852. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > different forces with single effect resolution?1714 ?1714 F. Hauksbee Course Exper. Lect. outl., sig. A The Resolution of Forces into those of other Directions. ?1714 F. Hauksbee Course Exper. 1 Which grand Law includes the Composition and Resolution of all Motions whatsoever. a1738 R. Helsham Course Lect. Nat. Philos. (1739) iv. 55 This composition and resolution of motions and forces, is of singular use in mechanicks. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxii. 181 Legree..governed his plantation by a sort of resolution of forces. 1882 G. M. Minchin Uniplanar Kinematics 1 Linear velocities follow the same laws of composition and resolution as Forces in Statics. 1935 A. H. G. Palmer & K. S. Snell Mechanics i. 7 OA, AP, are called the components of r in the given or opposite directions,..and the resolution is unique. 2006 Current Orthopaedics 20 2/1 The resolution of forces is particularly useful in biomechanics. III. The action or an act of resolving; determination, resolute temper. 11. a. The action or (in later use esp.) an act of resolving or determining; something which has been resolved upon; a fixed or positive intention.New Year's resolution: see New Year n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > [noun] resolvinga1398 resolutiona1475 decision1490 determination1548 resolve1818 making-up1841 the mind > will > decision > [noun] > (a) resolution or decision resolutiona1475 decreetc1475 decision1490 shall?1553 deliberation1579 resolve1592 pitch1600 volition1615 a1475 ( Life St. Alexius (Harl.) in Wiener Beiträge (1905) 21 113 (MED) Eufemyan was right pitous to euerich and..he toke his mete with the religious in the drede of god; And his wyfe..was of the same resolution. 1529 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 4 Aug. (1933) 27 Which resolution his Grace willed me to signifie unto yours. a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Cii Trust me..I will sacke it, or on this Castle wall, Ile write my resolution with my blood. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 55 Suddenly al the passengers resolued to leaue the ships..; at which resolution the Masters of the ships stormed. 1639 W. Lower Phaenix in her Flames sig. M^v I would rather You would desist from this your resolvtion, And make a tryall of my love and service In any other thing. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iii. 147 M^r Pimm was look'd upon as..not of those furious resolutions against the Church as the other Leading men were. 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 193. ⁋3 To be praised then every man resolves; but resolutions will not execute themselves. 1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda II. xviii. 196 Nothing could be more prudent, or praiseworthy, than forming such a resolution—except keeping it. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §8. 104 Neither warning nor desertion moved the resolution of the Primate. 1909 Chatterbox 94/1 Marion and Binkey make a resolution which they endeavoured to carry out. 1930 H. Garland Roadside Meetings xxix. 378 ‘Henceforth I am the novelist,’ was my definite resolution. 1990 S. King Stand (new ed.) ii. liii. 759 Were his good resolutions about Harold, made only the day before yesterday, already going by the boards? 2007 Independent on Sunday 30 Dec. (New Review) 33/2 Every New Year I make a list of resolutions that I then fail miserably to uphold. b. With of, †for, or to and infinitive. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iv. sig. Mm2^v The resolucion to dye had repossessed his place in her minde. 1586 Bp. of Meath Let. to Ld. Burghley in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1824) III. ii. 411 Your resolution for the referment of my cause back again to my lord deputy doth much grieve and discomfort me. 1633 J. Ford Broken Heart i. i. sig. B1 A resolution for a lasting league Betwixt your Families was entertain'd. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Dying iv. §6 Repentance..productive of fixed Resolutions of holy Living. 1699 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 473 The old East India company have agreed this day to a resolution for a coalition with the new company. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iii. 152 A sincere resolution of Amity and Union between the two Nations. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 7. ⁋24 He hopes they will come to a Resolution to send for no more Bulls to Rome. 1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World vi. 194 Seeing their fore-castle..full of men..I concluded they had now come to a resolution of entering us. 1792 J. Almon Anecd. Life W. Pitt (octavo ed.) I. xx. 309 Pitt communicated to the Cabinet his resolution of attacking Spain. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality x, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 228 He..formed the resolution of guiding himself by the circumstances in which he might discover the object of his quest. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. v. 202 The Nabob,..fully persuaded of the resolution of the Council to depose him [etc.]. 1904 Daily Graphic 8 Dec. 4/1 The Pentecostal Dancers..have maintained their steadfast resolution of dancing themselves into the hearts of their audiences. 1962 L. Namier Crossroads of Power xix. 201 It is my firm resolution to act the part of a man of business and a man of honor. 1979 Times 19 Nov. (Obituaries Suppl.) p. vii She [sc. Mary Pickford] was persuaded to relent her former resolution to destroy all her films. 2008 Pretoria News (Nexis) 7 Mar. 1 Our members want to hear an acknowledgement of the crime problem and a firm resolution to deal with it. †12. a. The removal of doubt in regard to a particular matter. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > [noun] > by removal of doubt or scruple contentation1533 resolution1578 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball To Rdr. For thy instruction and resolution in these matters I referre the to the same Authors. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie (1636) iii. 73 A German Monke adviseth him that doubteth of Purgatory, for his resolution to make his iourney into Scotland the greater. 1644 J. Cotton Keyes Kingdom Heaven iv. 18 The Church of Antioch sent messengers to Jerusalem for resolution and satisfaction in a doubt that troubled them. b. Confidence; conviction, certainty, positive knowledge. Obsolete.In quot. 1608: a state of conviction. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > [noun] sickerlaika1225 sickerness?c1225 sickerheadc1250 boldness1330 certaintya1340 traistc1340 assurancec1374 certain138. sureness1419 surancea1450 affiancec1460 certitude?a1475 resting?a1475 security1535 firmancec1540 confidence1555 assuredness1561 resolution1590 plerophory1598 reliance1606 undoubtfulness1619 positiveness1711 positivity1741 decidedness1800 positivism1842 undoubtingness1857 inexpugnability1864 1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 53* I haue such resolution in thy constancie, that [etc.]. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vi. xxxi. 148 As little resolution and certaintie there is [regarding the Hesperides], as touching the Islands of Mauritania. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 100 I would vnstate my selfe to be in a due resolution . View more context for this quotation 13. a. Determination; firmness or steadfastness of purpose; the possession of a resolute or unyielding cast of mind. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > resolution or determination > [noun] willOE businessa1387 wilfulnessc1386 restc1400 point1477 appointmenta1535 firmitude?1541 resoluteness?1560 resolve1592 resolution1594 constancy1603 resolvance1603 resolvedness1611 intensiona1619 determinateness1652 decisiveness1714 determinedness1747 decision1770 decidedness1800 setness1818 determinativeness1821 determination1822 virtu1876 the courage of one's convictions or opinions1878 self-determination1890 adamancy1898 drivenness1902 adamance1925 the mind > language > statement > [noun] > a statement or declaration pretence1440 mentiona1470 profession1526 resolution1594 definitive1595 propound1599 enunciation1628 expression1635 express1646 declarative1651 assert1655 statement1775 enouncementa1856 sayable1957 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. D1^v My will is backt with resolution . View more context for this quotation 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iii. i. 237 Thy griefe, their sports: Thy resolution mockt. View more context for this quotation 1636 E. Dacres tr. N. Machiavel Disc. Livy II. 329 On each part he makes the Armyes equall for their order, valour, resolution, and number. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 541 He comes, and settl'd in his face I see Sad resolution and secure. View more context for this quotation 1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Matt. iv. 10 A great Temptation must be withstood with great Resolution. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1754 I. 145 [Johnson] He was..a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself. 1812 P. B. Shelley Let. 17 Dec. (1964) I. 341 Mrs. Shelley is attacking Latin with considerable resolution. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood vii. 45 You seem to have resolution and power enough to crush me. 1921 L. Strachey Queen Victoria iii. 35 She..braced herself, with royal resolution, for the odious, odious interview. 1973 C. C. Trench George II xiv. 220 Having behaved all day like a hero,..he lacked the resolution now to press on to the enemy's destruction. 2003 Nation (N.Y.) 7 Apr. 5/2 As the British prime minister walked to the despatch box..he had the grim resolution of a man strapping on his six-shooter. †b. A resolute person. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > resolution or determination > [noun] > resolute or determined person resolute1578 resolution1643 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. 3 Yet have I not so shaken hands with those desperate Resolutions [1642 Resolvers], who had rather venture at large their decaied bottome, then bring her in to be new trim'd in the dock. View more context for this quotation IV. Solving, answering, formal declaration, and related senses. 14. a. (a) The action or an act of finding the answer to a question, the solution to a problem, etc.; the elimination or easing of doubt. Also: the fact of such an answer, solution, etc., having been found. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] swarec1175 responsec1300 answeringc1330 respoun?a1400 replicationc1405 resolutiona1500 replyal1548 replying1548 reply1577 respondence1590 interlocution1597 reanswer1599 responsure1600 answerage1642 the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > solution, explanation soilingc1380 solutionc1384 invention1484 resolutiona1500 dissolution1549 way1574 resolvea1630 solving1706 solve1780 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > resolving of problem, solution > [noun] soilingc1380 solutionc1420 invention1484 resolutiona1500 soluting1534 satisfactiona1569 assoil1589 assoiling1619 assoilmenta1680 solving1706 problem-solving1854 a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 52 (MED) Thy holy resolucions [Fr. resolutions] haue meked my thought to vndirstonde and feele the dyvine iustice. 1525 in W. Fraser Douglas Bk. (1885) IV. 101 Gif I have nocht done my uter power to bring all materis..to ane gude and fynale resolucioune. 1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Eviii^v I wyl addresse me to the ful answere and resolution of the same. 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 275 In resolution of the question of universall Redemption. 1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 350 For a resolution of this enquiry, the case of Abraham will be of great use to us. 1836 O. W. Holmes in Libr. Pract. Med. VII. 247 This question is almost always susceptible of resolution by careful examination. 1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. x. 181 Several antagonist theories have been promulgated in attempted resolution of the puzzle. 1898 Amer. Hist. Rev. 3 711 The resolution of the paradox is to be found in the fact that he has chosen for his study a period in which [etc.]. 1931 C. C. Pratt Meaning of Music i. 36 Until some happy resolution of the difficulty is arrived at, it is best simply to recognize the problem, and then avoid its complications as far as possible. 1974 R. Heilbroner Human Prospect iv. 100 The resolution of the crises thrust upon us by the social and natural environment can only be found through political action. 2000 R. King Brunelleschi's Dome (2001) iv. 38 Also essential to the project was the resolution of a difficulty not fully considered by Neri and his group. (b) Mathematics. The process of solving a mathematical problem; spec. the solving of an equation. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > mathematical enquiry > result of resolution1579 result1637 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 27 [He] gathered it out by certaine accidents, as they doe in the resolutions [Fr. resolutions] of certaine geometricall questions. 1636 J. Mellis Record's Ground of Artes 160 For the resolution whereof, and of all such other like, reduce 23 pound 8 shillings, all into shillings. 1647 W. Oughtred (title) The key of the mathematicks new forged and filed: together with a treatise of the resolution of all kinde of affected æquations in numbers. 1670 I. Newton Let. Jan. in Corr. (1959) I. 19 As to your other Problem about ye resolution of Equations by tables. 1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. 317 (heading) Concerning the resolution of the more considerable Problems of the First Motion by Calculation. 1776 H. Watson tr. L. Euler Compl. Theory Vessels ii. iv. 105 The unraveling of this Question depends upon the Resolution of the following Equation of the 4th Degree. 1846 C. Davies Elem. Algebra vii. 148 They are called imaginary quantities..and are frequently met with in the resolution of equations of the second degree. 1898 Amer. Math. Monthly 5 283 The two final lectures are devoted to the resolution of numerical equations. 1923 J. Hadamard Lect. Cauchy's Probl. ii. ii. 69 In order to obtain the required value of u, they had to be followed..by the resolution of more or less complicated integral equations. 2008 Sci. Amer. Mar. 51/1 Goldbach's conjecture or the Riemann hypothesis, both of which have resisted resolution for well over a century. (c) The reconciliation of conflicting views or parties in regard to a matter; the settlement of a dispute or conflict.conflict resolution: see conflict n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > [noun] > settling quarrels or disputes reckoning1488 composing1574 compounding1601 atonement1605 composure1640 compositiona1654 sopiting1659 resolution1890 alternative dispute resolution1980 1890 Spectator 15 Mar. 362/1 The Italian Government, though it is strong, hardly hopes to see a resolution of its quarrel with the Papacy. 1957 R. D. Luce & H. Raiffa Games & Decisions i. 10 Game Theory is a model for situations of conflict among several people, in which two principal modes of resolution are collusion and conciliation. 1987 M. Rustin & M. Rustin Narratives Love & Loss 3 These stories are about the representation of feeling, and about the resolution of conflicts of feeling. 1997 J. Bowker World Relig. 107/2 The turf of the Naga hillside is burned by people wearing warrior monk costumes, to celebrate the resolution of a dispute between two local temples. †b. An answer, an explanation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > solution, explanation > instance of answerOE solutionc1384 resolutiona1542 sol1588 soil1609 salvo1660 éclaircissement1673 fix1882 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > resolving of problem, solution > [noun] > instance of keyeOE solutionc1384 resolutiona1542 salvea1628 solvent1865 a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) viii. 147 ‘It liketh me’ (quod she) ‘to have herd your question: But lenger tyme doth aske resolution.’ 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. v. xii. 86 Rhodon promised also..to publish the resolutions of his Problemes. His commentaries vpon the six dayes workes, are at this day extant. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 6 Your resolutions, doe me content so well, That I delight..to aske. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §9 I can answer all the objections..with that odde resolution I learned of Tertullian, certum est quia impossibile est . View more context for this quotation †c. of hard (easy, etc.) resolution: hard (or easy, etc.) to resolve. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > resolving of problem, solution > [adjective] > capable of being resolved > in specific way of hard (easy, etc.) resolution1645 1645 D. North Forest of Varieties ii. 134 To..make things otherwise of easie resolution anxious, and vexing. 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall ii. 19 How the Romanes left so many Coynes..seems of hard resolution. 1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. i. i. 110 A strange dispute, and of most easie resolution. 1784 S. Horsley Lett. in Reply Dr. Priestley xii. 100 A question might indeed arise, which might be of difficult resolution; why was this doctrine, for a certain time, kept back? 15. a. A formal decision, determination, or expression of opinion by a deliberative assembly, committee, court, public meeting, etc. (in early use also by an individual). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > [noun] > a judgement, ruling doomc825 judging1357 verdictc1386 determination1395 judgement?a1400 skillc1400 decision1467 date1488 arrest1509 resolution1545 pronouncement1593 resultance1610 decreea1642 placit1641 pronounce1641 placitum1649 vardy1738 deliverance1856 the mind > will > decision > [noun] > (a) resolution or decision > formal or collective resolution1545 resolve1649 executive decision1891 1545 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 15 Nov. (1933) 194 The articles offred by Skore..shalbe answered with the resolution taken at the Dyet. 1572 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 16 May 2 f. 45 Upon the question all the house thought yt that the generll resolution is metest to be synified unto her m^tie. 1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 1055 The Lord hath giuen a generall resolution, that no man can enter into the kingdome of heauen, vnles [etc.]. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 143 He speaketh so confidently thereof, as I will not altogether discredit his resolution in this behalfe. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxii. 119 Present at all the Deliberations, and Resolutions of the Body. 1674 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 197 [He] promiseth to give his resolution about y^e petitioners before his departure. 1705 A. Furly in J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain (1707) 13 It having been offer'd to our Consideration, whether the Siege..ought to be undertaken, and the Opinions of every General Officer having been asked, they are come to this unanimous Resolution. 1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xlviii. 181 Yet now you confess that parliaments are fallible, and that their resolutions may be illegal. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) VI. 506 The established law in cases of this nature was according to the resolution in the Duke of Norfolk's case. 1900 H. L. Thompson Christ Church ix. 190 The next step was for the Dean to convene the chapter and announce to them the resolution arrived at. 1933 W. W. Folwell Autobiogr. & Lett. iv. 53 The resolution of the council was that I might try it at Geneva for a year. 1995 San Jose Mercury News (Nexis) 28 Dec. 22 a In a six-page resolution Wednesday, the tribunal said judges gave ‘laconic’ and ‘evasive’ replies to questioning over the incident. b. A formulation of such a determination, expression of opinion, etc., submitted to an assembly or meeting for consideration. ΚΠ 1663 J. Heath Brief Chron. Late Intestine Warr (new ed.) f. 745 That all Votes, Acts, and Resolutions passed by any Members of Parliament, when the rest were detained from, or taken out of the House, should be null and void. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 72. ¶5 This Resolution passed in a general Club Nemine Contradicente. 1772 in W. Smith Ahiman Rezon (1783) iii. 95 Received and read the resolutions of the Grand Lodge of England, transmitted by their Grand Secretary, Brother William Dickey. 1800 T. Jefferson Let. Dec. in E. Pendleton Lett. & Papers (1967) II. 686 Would the preamble of the resolution be first amended according to the natural order? 1806 Monthly Mag. June 481/1 At a recent meeting of..wool growers of Glamorganshire, resolutions were adopted for establishing a wool-fair in that county. 1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) iv. 41 To hold a meeting..in order to prepare resolutions to be laid before the masters. 1884 Manch. Examiner 7 July 4/6 The hon. gentlemen spoke to a resolution congratulating the Government on the passing of the Franchise Bill. 1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 110/2 The famous Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions drafted by Jefferson and Madison. 1943 M. Samuel tr. S. Asch Apostle i. viii. 95 That morning there was adopted, with little debate, the resolution to intercalate an extra month in the calendar. 1989 M. Mathabane Kaffir Boy in Amer. (1990) v. 37 The United Nations Security Council had finally adopted Resolution 435, detailing a plan for Namibian independence. 2003 N. Smart Brit. Strategy & Politics during Phony War vii. 240 He proceeded to read out the resolution his executive had adopted. †16. An explanatory account of something. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun] > an explanation, exposition, account reasonc1300 interpretation1390 gloss1548 esclarishment1549 demonstration1559 resolution1582 elucidary1603 elucidation1667 éclaircissement1673 expositive1687 mise au point1929 1582 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 536 [The safeconduct had been obtained, and directed to him] togidder with a resolution of the forme and tyme appointit for his departing. 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall ii. 25 We much deplore the losse of that Letter which Cicero expected or received from his Brother Quintus, as a resolution of Brittish customes. 17. The climax or denouement of a play, novel, or other narrative work, in which plot elements are brought to a conclusion. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > plot > dénouement untying1598 unravelling1606 discovery1668 unravelment1705 dénouement1752 resolution1846 pay-off1947 1846 A. J. W. Morrison tr. H. Ulrici Shakspere's Dramatic Art iii. 147 The march, complication, and final resolution of the dramatic action. 1890 R. G. Moulton Anc. Classical Drama iv. 188 One plot is complete with the resolution. 1913 J. B. Opdycke Composition Planning xiii. 255 The conclusion to most stories can be gracefully absorbed in the resolution and this should always be attempted. 1963 PMLA 78 105/1 To call into doubt that novel's resolution is to question the structure and meaning of the whole book. 1995 New Scientist 8 July 47/1 The narrative rules of the ‘story arc’ which takes movie plots to a satisfying resolution. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > see also also refers to : re-solutionn.² < n.¹a1398 see also
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