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▪ I. diˈssolving, vbl. n. [f. dissolve + -ing1.] The action of the verb dissolve (q.v.), in various senses; dissolution.
1398Trevisa Barth. de P.R. xvi. vi. (1495) 555 The cytrine auripigment..hath vertue of dyssoluyng and temprynge. 1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619) 31, I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my dissolving is at hand. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 64/1 Moist through the dissolving of the Salt. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 270 Between the dissolving of one Parliament and the convoking of another. ▪ II. diˈssolving, ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ing2.] That dissolves, in various senses: see the verb. a. trans.
1620Venner Via Recta vii. 151 The roots haue..an opening and dissoluing faculty. 1821Shelley Prometh. Unb. iv. 431 The dissolving warmth of dawn. b. intr. dissolving views, pictures produced on a screen by a magic lantern, one picture being caused gradually to disappear while another gradually appears on the same field.
1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 554 The Crack of the dissolving World, that is sinking into eternal Ruins. 1821Shelley Hellas 1065 Faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream. 1846Mech. Mag. XLV. 486 The present method of exhibiting the dissolving views. 1886A. Winchell Walks & Talks Geol. Field 278 The dissolving ice of the glacier. Hence diˈssolvingly adv.
1822E. Nathan Langreath II. 322 A whining effort to be dissolvingly sentimental. 1832Tennyson Eleänore 128 A languid fire creeps Thro' my veins to all my frame, Dissolvingly and slowly. |