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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