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resolutive, a. and n.|ˈrɛzəl(j)uːtɪv|
[ad. med.L. *resolūtīv-us (see resolute v. and -ive), whence also It. and Sp. resolutivo, F. résolutif.]
A. adj.
1. a. Having the power to dissolve.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 334 Þan leie þervpon þe medycyn resolutif. Ibid., Of medicyns resolutiuis, summe ben simple. 1528Paynell Salerne's Regim. dd iij, The .iiij. is baynyng specially resolutive, for that letteth bloud lettyng. 1566Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. iii. i. (1568) 49 A Repercussiue and Resolutiue oyntment against the Canker. 1601Holland Pliny II. 557 Astringent it is, and yet resolutiue. 1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋133 There ariseth from the bottome a resolutive power. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 196 Gum Tucamahaca is digestive, resolutive, neurotick. a1774Goldsm. tr. Scarron's Com. Rom. (1775) I. 309, I just now applied to him an anodyne and resolutive cataplasm on a livid tumour. 1873R. Barnes Dis. Women xl. 517 So-called resolutive pessaries of iodine, made up into conical balls, with cocoa-nut butter or other ingredients.
b. Path. Terminating by resolution.
1861Bumstead Ven. Dis. (1879) 544 The tubercular syphilide..disappears by interstitial absorption; hence, it has been called non-ulcerative or resolutive.
2. Law.
a. resolutive condition, a condition by the happening of which a contract or obligation is terminated.
a1623Swinburne Spousals (1686) 138 Forasmuch as this Condition is not suspensive, but resolutive or extinctive. Ibid. 144 [He] adviseth his Pupil to contract Matrimony conditionally,..under some like Resolutive Condition. 1832Austin Jurispr. liii. (1879) II. 899 Rights subject to a contingency or condition resolutive. 1875Poste Gaius iii. 384 Conditions are Suspensive or Resolutive.
b. resolutive clause, in Sc. Law, a clause extinguishing the right of the person who contravenes the conditions laid down in the deed.
1765Act 5 Geo. III, c. 26 Preamble, [They] should convey, settle, and intail the lands..with all the proper, prohibitive, irritant, and resolutive clauses. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 164 By the resolutive clause, the right of the person contravening is resolved and extinguished. 1868Act 31 & 32 Vict. c. 101 §9 It shall not be necessary..to insert..prohibitory, irritant, or resolutive clauses.
3. Logic. Analytical. ? Obs.
1654Z. Coke Logick 4 It is delivered by an Analytical and Resolutive method, proceeding from the object and end foreknown. 1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 66 There is therefore no method, by which we find out the causes of things, but is either compositive or resolutive... And the resolutive is commonly called analytical method, as the compositive is called synthetical.
B. n. A medical application or drug which serves to resolve or disperse morbid matter.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 234 Rasis forbediþ þat þou schalt leie þerto no repercussiuis, ne noon resolutiuis but if þe mater be avoidid tofore. 1562W. Bullein Bulwarke, Dial. Sorenes & Chir. 13 b, Whose cure must be in drawing forthe from the matter, with resolutiues, or softening medicenes. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Tumour, You must neither use Convulsives nor Repercusives, but only gentle Resolutives. 1756P. Browne Jamaica (1789) 121 The root is warm, and may be successfully administered as a resolutive, sudorific, or diaphoretic. 1873R. Barnes Dis. Wom. xl. 519 It has been recommended to establish a seton in the vaginal⁓portion as a derivative and resolutive. |