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Dissolution   /dˌɪsəlˈuʃən/   Listen
noun
Dissolution  n.  
1.
The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation. "Dissolutions of ancient amities."
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."
4.
The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership. "Dissolution is the civil death of Parliament."
5.
The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death. "We expected Immediate dissolution."
6.
The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction. "A man of continual dissolution and thaw."
7.
The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution.
8.
Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin. "To make a present dissolution of the world."
9.
Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness. (Obs. or R.)






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... them, that he immediately proposed his joining him in his drawing school, with an agreement, I believe that his payment from it should be five hundred dollars a year. Mr. H. accepted the proposal, but the union did not last long, and the cause of its dissolution was too American to be omitted. Mr. H. prepared his models, and attended the class, which was numerous, consisting both of boys and girls. He soon found that the "sage called Decipline" was not one of the assistants, and he remonstrated against the constant talking, ...
— Domestic Manners of the Americans • Fanny Trollope

... antagonism to the assumptions of the German community, a sphere finally which cannot emancipate itself without emancipating all the other spheres of society, which represents in a word the complete loss of mankind, and can therefore only redeem itself through the complete redemption of mankind. The dissolution of society reduced to a ...
— Selected Essays • Karl Marx

... certain small amount of pepsin is destroyed during the act of digestion. So that if my solution contained, as is probable, an extremely small amount of the ferment, this would have been consumed by the dissolution of the cubes of albumen first given; none being left when the hydrochloric acid was added. The destruction of the ferment during the process of digestion, or its absorption after the albumen had been converted into a peptone, ...
— Insectivorous Plants • Charles Darwin

... the beginning of his malady, a distinct view of his dissolution; and he contemplated it with that entire composure, which nothing but the innocence, integrity, and usefulness of his life, and an unaffected submission to the will of Providence, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 331, May, 1843 • Various

... instituted by John C. Calhoun, William L. Porcher, and others, as far back as 1835, has for its sole object the dissolution of the Union, and the establishment of a Southern Empire;—Empire is the word, not Confederacy, or Republic;—and it was solely by means of its secret but powerful machinery that the Southern States were plunged into revolution, in ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol I, Issue I, January 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various


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