DISSOLVE Copy link • DISSOLVE 1. TRANS. To liquefy, to melt, solvere: dissolvere: resolvere: diluere (to cause to become fused): liquare (to fuse, to liquefy): to dissolve anything in vinegar, in wine, aceto, vino diluere: to dissolve pearls, margaritas in tabem resolvere (Plin.); margaritas liquefacere. To disunite, Vid: To solve; Vid: To break up; e.g., an assembly, etc., dissolvere (e.g., the ties of friendship, an association, connection, etc.): dirimere (to separate; e.g., marriage, an association): to dissolve the ties of friendship abruptly, amicitiam repente praecidere (opposed to sensim dissuere or remissione usus eluere, i. e., by degrees): to dissolve a meeting, a committee, etc., concionem dimittere; senatum mittere or dimittere (of the sittings of the Senate); discutere (violently; illos coetus, Boeoticum concilium; both Liv.): to dissolve a partnership, societatem dirimere or dissolvere. To relax by pleasure, mollire, emollire (Vid: proper word): effeminare (to effeminate): enervare (to enervate). 2. INTRANS., solvi: dissolvi (of things); liquefieri: liquescere: liquari (to become liquid, or in a state of fusion, of metals; Vid: To FUSE): resolvi (e.g., of snow, etc.; Curt., 7, 3, 10): tabescere (to waste away; e.g., humor calore); also discuti (e.g., of fogs, etc.): attenuari (to grow thinner, to decrease): collabi (to tumble together, or on a heap): evanescere (to change into nothing, disappear entirely): dilabi (to glide away; e.g., amnis, glacies, Cic.). (The words are found in this connection and order.) liquefieri et dilabi. Dissolved, liquefactus et dilapsus (e.g., glacies, Cic.). To melt away in pleasures, effeminari; molliri; emolliri. Vid: also, in DISSIPATED.