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Definition of Dissolution

1. Noun. Separation into component parts.

2. Noun. The process of going into solution. "The dissolving of salt in water"

3. Noun. Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure.

4. Noun. The termination of a meeting.

5. Noun. The termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations).

Definition of Dissolution

1. n. The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.

Definition of Dissolution

1. Noun. The termination of an organized body or legislative assembly, especially a formal dismissal. ¹

2. Noun. Disintegration, or decomposition into fragments. ¹

3. Noun. Dissolving, or going into solution. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dissolution

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Medical Definition of Dissolution

1. 1. The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation. "Dissolutions of ancient amities." (Shak) 2. Change from a solid to a fluid state; solution by heat or moisture; liquefaction; melting. 3. Change of form by chemical agency; decomposition; resolution. "The dissolution of the compound." (South) 4. The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership. "Dissolution is the civil death of Parliament." (Blackstone) 5. The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death. "We expected Immediate dissolution." (Milton) 6. The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction. "A man of continual dissolution and thaw." (Shak) 7. The new product formed by dissolving a body; a solution. 8. Destruction of anything by the separation of its parts; ruin. "To make a present dissolution of the world." (Hooker) 9. Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness. Origin: OE. Dissolucioun dissoluteness, F. Dissolution, fr. L. Dissolutio, fr. Dissolvere. See Dissolve. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissolution

dissociative identity disorder dissociative reaction dissociative recombination dissociatively dissociatives dissociator dissociators dissogony dissolubility dissoluble

dissolubleness dissolute dissolutely dissoluteness dissolutenesses dissolution dissolution of marriage dissolutionism dissolutions dissolvability

dissolvable dissolvableness dissolve dissolved dissolved oxygen dissolvents dissolver dissolvers dissolves

Literary usage of Dissolution

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"After dissolution of a partnership, one of the partners executed promissory notes to plaintiff for the balance of a firm debt, signing them in the firm name ..."

2. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, John Melville Gould, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1901)
"Of the Dissolution of Corporations.u1') — A Corporation may be dissolved, ... After dissolution, the officers, and not the creditors, have prima facie the ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"We must, therefore, pass to the second step in the dissolution. Parliament met on 4 February, 1536, and the chief business it was called upon to transact ..."

4. Two Treatises of Government by John Locke (1824)
"Of the dissolution of government. § 211. HE that will with any clearness speak of the dissolution of government, ought in the first place to distinguish ..."

5. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"determined by the dissolution of the body politic, the grantor takes it back by reversion, as in the case of every other grant for life. ..."

6. Handbook on the Law of Partnership, Including Limited Partnerships by Eugene Allen Gilmore (1911)
"proceedings may be begun at the instance of a creditor, or of one of either class of partners.8 Dissolution 226. No dissolution by the voluntary act of the ..."

7. The constitutional history of England from the accession of Henry vii to the by Henry Hallam (1846)
"He announced his intentions of government for the future in a long declaration of the causes of the late dissolution of parliament, which, ..."

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