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Resolve   /rizˈɑlv/   Listen
verb
Resolve  v. t.  (past & past part. resolved; pres. part. resolving)  
1.
To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve. "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!" "Ye immortal souls, who once were men, And now resolved to elements again."
2.
To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up, or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle. "Resolve my doubt." "To the resolving whereof we must first know that the Jews were commanded to divorce an unbelieving Gentile."
3.
To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain. "Sir, be resolved. I must and will come." "Resolve me, Reason, which of these is worse, Want with a full, or with an empty purse?" "In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it can not be equaled by any region." "We must be resolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries."
4.
To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle; as, he was resolved by an unexpected event.
5.
To express, as an opinion or determination, by resolution and vote; to declare or decide by a formal vote; followed by a clause; as, the house resolved (or, it was resolved by the house) that no money should be apropriated (or, to appropriate no money).
6.
To change or convert by resolution or formal vote; used only reflexively; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole.
7.
(Math.) To solve, as a problem, by enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is required; to find the answer to, or the result of.
8.
(Med.) To dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor.
9.
(Mus.) To let the tones (as of a discord) follow their several tendencies, resulting in a concord.
10.
To relax; to lay at ease. (Obs.)
To resolve a nebula.(Astron.) See Resolution of a nebula, under Resolution.
Synonyms: To solve; analyze; unravel; disentangle.


Resolve  v. i.  
1.
To be separated into its component parts or distinct principles; to undergo resolution.
2.
To melt; to dissolve; to become fluid. "When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves, and turns alkaline."
3.
To be settled in opinion; to be convinced. (R.) "Let men resolve of that as they plaease."
4.
To form a purpose; to make a decision; especially, to determine after reflection; as, to resolve on a better course of life.
Synonyms: To determine; decide; conclude; purpose.


noun
Resolve  n.  
1.
The act of resolving or making clear; resolution; solution. "To give a full resolve of that which is so much controverted."
2.
That which has been resolved on or determined; decisive conclusion; fixed purpose; determination; also, legal or official determination; a legislative declaration; a resolution. "Nor is your firm resolve unknown." "Caesar's approach has summoned us together, And Rome attends her fate from our resolves."





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"Resolve" Quotes from Famous Books



... latent best in him. She developed in him a quickness of perception, a depth of thought and emotion, a facility of speech which he had never known. She stimulated every faculty, and gave him new incentive—a new and firmer resolve to aspire and fight for all that he ...
— One Day - A sequel to 'Three Weeks' • Anonymous
... when others of my Subjects undutifully misbehaved themselves to me, or so basely deserted me: And your seconding my Deputy, as you did, in His Firm and Resolute asserting my Right, in preserving this Kingdom for me, and putting it in a Posture of Defence; made me resolve to come to you, and to venture my life with you, in the defence of your Liberties and my Own Right. And to my great Satisfaction I have not only found you ready to serve me, but that your ...
— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis
... confess, with shame, that I busied myself in a variety of ill-bred and preposterous conjectures about this matter of the supernumerary state-room. It was no business of mine, to be sure, but with none the less pertinacity did I occupy myself in attempts to resolve the enigma. At last I reached a conclusion which wrought in me great wonder why I had not arrived at it before. "It is a servant of course," I said; "what a fool I am, not sooner to have thought of so obvious a solution!" And then I again repaired to the list—but here I saw distinctly that no ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 4 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... space), 'The more ye ask us the more we won't stir.' One may smile at a young girl's miseries of this description; but they are very real and stinging miseries to her. All that Molly could do was to resolve on a single eye to the dear old squire, and his mental and bodily comforts; to try and heal up any breaches which might have occurred between him and Aimee; and to ignore Roger as much as possible. Good Roger! Kind Roger! Dear Roger! It would be very ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... for half an hour, and had brought a ray of sunshine into the teacher's monotonous life, heretofore lighted only by the uncertain lamp of high resolve. She had satisfied a pardonable curiosity, and had gone away without ...
— The House Behind the Cedars • Charles W. Chesnutt


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