Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DIS-SO'CIA-BLE – DIS-SUAD'ED
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DIS-SO'CIA-BLE, a. [See Dissociate.]
- Not well associated, united, or assorted. They came in two and two, though matched in the most dissociable manner. – Spectator, No. 4.
- Incongruous; not reconcilable with. – Warburton.
DIS-SO'CIAL, a. [dis and social.]
Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, a dissocial passion. – Kames.
DIS-SO'CIATE, v.t. [L. dissociatus, dissocio; dis and socio, to unite, socius, a companion.]
To separate; to disunite; to part; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance. – Boyle.
DIS-SO'CIA-TED, pp.
Separated; disunited.
DIS-SO'CIA-TING, ppr.
Separating; disuniting.
DIS-SO-CI-A'TION, n.
The act of disuniting; a state of separation; disunion. It will add to the dissociation, distraction and confusion of these confederate republics. – Burke.
Capacity of being dissolved by heat or moisture, and converted into a fluid.
DIS'SOL-U-BLE, a. [L. dissolubilis. See Dissolve.]
- Capable of being dissolved; that may be melted; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid. – Woodward.
- That may be disunited.
DIS'SO-LUTE, a. [L. dissolutus, from dissolvo.]
- Loose in behavior and morals; given to vice and dissipation; wanton; lewd; luxurious; debauched; not under the restraints of law; as, a dissolute man; dissolute company.
- Vicious; wanton; devoted to pleasure and dissipation; as, a dissolute life.
DIS'SO-LUTE-LY, adv.
Loosely; wantonly; in dissipation or debauchery; without restraint; as, to live dissolutely.
DIS'SO-LUTE-NESS, n.
Looseness of manners and morals; vicious indulgences in pleasure, as in intemperance and debauchery; dissipation; as, dissoluteness of life or manners.
DIS-SO-LU'TION, n. [L. dissolutio, from dissolvo.]
- In a general sense, the separation of the parts of a body which, in the natural structure, are united; or the reduction of concrete bodies into their smallest parts, without regard to solidity or fluidity. Thus we speak of the dissolution of salts in water, of metals in nitro-muriatic acid, and of ice or butter by heat; in which cases, the dissolution is effected by a menstruum or particular agent. We speak also of the dissolution of flesh or animal bodies, when the parts separate by putrefaction. Dissolution then is,
- The act of liquefying or changing from a solid to a fluid state by heat; a melting; a thawing; as, the dissolution of snow and ice, which converts them into water.
- The reduction of a body into its smallest parts, or into very minute parts, by a dissolvent or menstruum, as of a metal by nitro-muriatic acid, or of salts in water.
- The separation of the parts of a body by putrefaction, or the analysis of the natural structure of mixed bodies, as of animal or vegetable substances; decomposition.
- The substance formed by dissolving a body in a menstruum. [This is now called a solution.] – Bacon.
- Death; the separation of the soul and body. – Milton.
- Destruction; the separation of the parts which compose a connected system, or body; as, the dissolution of the world, or of nature; the dissolution of government.
- The breaking up of an assembly, or the putting an end to its existence. Dissolution is the civil death of parliament. – Blackstone.
- Looseness of manners; dissipation. – Taylor. South. In this latter sense the word is obsolete, dissoluteness being substituted.
- Dissolution of the blood, in medicine, that state of the blood, in which it does not readily coagulate, on its cooling out of the body, as in malignant fevers. – Cyc.
DIS-SOLV'A-BLE, a. [dizzolv'able. See Dissolve.]
That may be dissolved; capable of being melted; that may be converted into a fluid. Sugar and ice are dissolvable bodies.
State of being dissolvable.
DIS-SOLVE', v.i. [dizzolv'.]
- To be melted; to be converted from a solid to a fluid state; as, sugar dissolves in water.
- To sink sway; to lose strength and firmness. – Shak.
- To melt away in pleasure; to become soft or languid.
- To fall asunder; to crumble; to be broken. A government may dissolve by its own weight or extent.
- To waste away; to perish; to be decomposed. Flesh dissolves by putrefaction.
- To come to an end by a separation of parts.
DIS-SOLVE', v.t. [dizzolv'; L. dissolvo; dis and solvo, to loose, to free.]
- To melt; to liquefy; to convert from a solid or fixed state to a fluid state, by means of heat or moisture. To dissolve by heat, is to loosen the parts of a solid body and render them fluid or easily movable. Thus ice is converted into water by dissolution. To dissolve in a liquid, is to separate the parts of a solid substance, and cause them to mix with the fluid; or to reduce a solid substance into minute parts which may be sustained in that fluid. Thus water dissolves salt and sugar.
- To disunite; to break; to separate. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy deportment and godliness? – 2 Pet. iii.
- To loose; to disunite. Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved. – Fairfax.
- To loose the ties or bonds of any thing; to destroy any connected system; as, to dissolve a government; to dissolve a corporation.
- To loose; to break; as, to dissolve a league; to dissolve the bonds of friendship.
- To break up; to cause to separate; to put an end to; as, to dissolve the parliament; to dissolve an assembly.
- To clear; to solve; to remove; to dissipate, or to explain, as, to dissolve doubts. We usually say, to solve doubts and difficulties.
- To break; to destroy; as, to dissolve a charm, spell or enchantment. – Milton.
- To loosen or relax; to make languid; as, dissolved in pleasure.
- To waste away; to consume; to cause to vanish or perish. Thou dissolvest my substance. – Job xxx.
- To annul; to rescind; as, to dissolve an injunction. – Johnson's Rep.
DIS-SOLV'ED, pp.
Melted; liquefied; disunited; parted; loosed; relaxed; wasted away; ended. Dissolved blood, is that which does not readily coagulate.
DIS-SOLV'ENT, a.
Having power to melt or dissolve; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach. – Ray.
DIS-SOLV'ENT, n.
- Any thing which has the power or quality of melting, or converting a solid substance into a fluid, or of separating the parts of a fixed body so that they mix with a liquid; as, water is a dissolvent of salts and earths. It is otherwise called a menstruum.
- In medicine, a remedy supposed capable of dissolving concretions in the body, such as calculi, tubercles, &c. – Parr.
DIS-SOLV'ER, n.
That which dissolves or has the power of dissolving. Heat is the most powerful dissolver of substances.
DIS-SOLV'ING, ppr.
Melting; making or becoming liquid.
DIS'SO-NANCE, n. [Fr. dissonance, from L. dissonans, dissono, to be discordant; dis and sono, to sound.]
- Discord; a mixture or union of harsh, unharmonious sounds, which are grating or unpleasing to the ear; as, the dissonance of notes, sounds or numbers.
- Disagreement.
DIS'SO-NANT, a.
- Discordant; harsh; jarring; unharmonious; unpleasant to the ear; as, dissonant notes or intervals.
- Disagreeing; incongruous; usually with from; as, he advanced propositions very dissonant from truth.
DIS-SUADE', v.t. [L. dissuadeo; dis and suadeo, to advise or incite to any thing.]
- To advise or exhort against; to attempt to draw or divert from a measure, by reason or offering motives to; as, the minister dissuaded the prince from adopting the measure; he dissuaded him from his purpose.
- To represent as unfit, improper or dangerous. War therefore, open or concealed, alike / My voice dissuades. – Milton. This phraseology is probably elliptical, and merely poetical; from being understood.
DIS-SUAD'ED, pp.
Advised against; counseled or induced by advice not to do something; diverted from a purpose.