RESOLVE Copy link • RESOLVETransitively, To dissolve, solvere: dissolvere: resolvere; if = liquefy, liquefacere: liquare: diluere. To separate, dissolvere: sejungere: secernere. To solve, solvere (qnaestionem, Gell.); dissolvere (interrogationem, Cic.); solvere (aenigma, Quint.); solvere, resolvere (ambiguitatem, Quint.); tollere (dubitationem, Cic.). Intransitively, To determine, statuere, constituere, decernere, upon anything, aliquid, or followed by an infinitive (to fix, settle, determine): consilium capere (to form a determination or resolution: followed by the gerund in di or infinitive, or ut; Vid: in “to form a RESOLUTION”): inducere animum or in animum (to bring one’s mind to; followed by an infinitive or ut): decernere (PROP., to decree that anything shall take place; then = to resolve): apud animum statuere, constituere (to fix, settle): destinare, animo proponere (to propose to one’s self: ☞ the latter without animo, especially in the Silver Age): censere, placet alicui (of the Senate): sciscere: jubere. (The words are found in this connection and order.) sciscere jubereque (to make a law or ordinance, sciscere especially of the plebs, jubere of the populus; Vid: commentators on Nep., Arist., 1, 4; Heusingg., Cic., Off., 3, 11, 1): I am resolved, certum est mihi; stat mihi (sententia); statutum habeo cum animo et deliberatum: to be sufficiently resolved upon, etc., satis habere consilium de, etc. (Cic., Att., 12, 50, extr.). [Vid: also, “my RESOLUTION is firm. “] Not to be able to resolve on anything, animi or animo pendere; varie or in diversas partes distrahi; certum consilium capere non posse; certa aliqua in sententia consistere non posse; haereo quid faciam; in incerto habeo, quidnam consilii capiam.