DISSOLUTION Copy link • DISSOLUTIONOf metals, coctura (general term for preparing in any way by heating; also of melting; Col. Plin.): conflatura (of metals; Plin.): fusura (fusion; plumbi, Plin.). Destruction by separation of parts, interitus et dissipatio (Cic.): dissolutio (e.g., imperii, Tac.): solutio. [Vid: DESTRUCTION.] Separation of the body into its elements, dissolutio, with or without naturae; also separatio animi ac corporis in morte (death). [Vid :, DEATH.] Dismissal of an assembly, probably dimissio (as Cic., uses dimissio remigum = dismissal; and dimittere concilium, etc. is right). Dissolution of a marriage, diffarreatio (i. e., of a legal marriage, in contracting which, a religious rite was observed, and a loaf made of “far,” ζέα, was offered): repudium (the sending away of the partner, on the part of the man): divortium: discidium (separation of man and wife): abruptio matrimonii (an abrupt or unexpected separation). ☞ The formula was the following: res tuas tibi habeto or tuas res tibi agito. To agree to a dissolution of partnership, societatem dirimere; transigere cum aliquo.