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What does "dissolution" mean?

Dissolution: Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting.

Additional senses

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

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