Dis'so-lū'tion, n.
n. [Lat. dissolutio, from dissolvere; Fr. dissolution, Pr. dissolucio, Sp. disolucion, It. dissoluzione. See DISSOLVE.]
Sense 1. The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts. “Dissolution of ancient amities.” Shak.
Sense 2. Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction.
Sense 3. Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution. “The dissolution of the compound.” South.
Sense 4. The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership.
Dissolution is the civil death of Parliament. Blackstone.
Sense 5. The extinction of human life; death.
We expected Immediate dissolution. Milton.
Sense 6. The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction.
I am as subject to heat as butter; a man of continual dissolution and thaw. Shak.
Sense 7. The consequence of dissolving, relaxing, or decomposing; destruction; ruin. “To make a present dissolution of the world.” Hooker.
Sense 8. Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness. [Obs. or rare.] Atterbury.
Sense 9. The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution. Bacon.
Dissolution of the blood (Med.), that state of the blood in which it does not readily coagulate upon cooling when withdrawn from the system, as in malignant fevers.