Dissolutions of ancient amities. --Shak.
2. Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or
moisture; liquefaction; melting.
3. Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition;
resolution.
The dissolution of the compound. --South.
4. The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions;
the breaking up of a partnership.
Dissolution is the civil death of Parliament.
--Blackstone.
5. The extinction of life in the human body; separation of
the soul from the body; death.
We expected Immediate dissolution. --Milton.
6. The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing
liquefaction.
A man of continual dissolution and thaw. --Shak.
7. The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution.
--Bacon.
8. Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts;
ruin.
To make a present dissolution of the world.
--Hooker.
9. Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness. [Obs. or
R.] --Atterbury.