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