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. Bacon.
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. [Obs. or R.] Atterbury.
DISSOLVABILITY
Dis*solv`a*bil"i*ty, n.
Defn: Capacity of being dissolved; solubility. Richardson.