Dissolution /(?)/

Dis·so·lu·tion

Dissolution

n.
  1. The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.
    Dissolutions of ancient amities.
  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.
  4. The dispersion of an assembly by terminating its sessions; the breaking up of a partnership.
    Dissolution is the civil death of Parliament.
  5. The extinction of life in the human body; separation of the soul from the body; death.
    We expected Immediate dissolution.
  6. The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction.
    A man of continual dissolution and thaw.
  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.
  9. Corruption of morals; dissipation; dissoluteness. [Obs. or R.]