Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-SOLV'ED, pp.

1. Separated into its component parts; analyzed.
2. Determined in purpose; as, I am resolved not to keep company with gamesters. This phrase is properly, “I have resolved;” as we say, a person is deceased, for has deceased; he is retired, for has retired. In these phrases, the participle is rather an adjective.
3. Determined officially or by vote.