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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



... youth I was faced, as others are, by the problem of sex. Living partly in an Australian city where the ways of life were plainly seen, partly in the solitude of the bush, I was free both to contemplate and to meditate many things. A resolve slowly grew up within me: one main part of my life-work should be to make clear the problems ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... well, I have well deserved it; but when the old gentleman would keep talking such stupid nonsense I felt as if I were choking, I could not make any other answer." "And then," went on Paumgartner, "what a ridiculous resolve to give your daughter to nobody but a cooper! You will commit, you say, your daughter's destiny to Providence, and yet with human shortsightedness you anticipate the decree of the Almighty in that you obstinately determine beforehand ...
— Weird Tales, Vol. II. • E. T. A. Hoffmann
... what might, I would endeavour to carry myself in such a manner as Marjorie would have me carry myself, namely, as an honest man should, fighting to the best of his ability for what he believed to be the right cause, and not making too much of a fuss about it. And that resolve nerved me better than a dram of spirits would have done, and I set aside the flask from which I had been on the ...
— Marjorie • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... the desperate resolve to crush out Protestantism, either by force or guile, and to bring back his realms to the papal church. Even the toleration of Maximilian, in those dark days, did not allow freedom of worship to any but the nobles. The wealthy and emancipated ...
— The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power • John S. C. Abbott
... is a school of modern philosophers who are trying to materialize all science, to eliminate the distinction between the physical and the intellectual and moral, to declare for nought the free action of the human will, and to resolve the whole story of the fates of mankind into a series of purely material effects, produced by assignable physical causes, and explainable in the past, or determinable in the future, by an intimate knowledge ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller


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