To separate the component
parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound
substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.
To reduce to simple or intelligible
notions; -- said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear
or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to
explain; hence, to clear up, or dispel, as doubt; as, to
resolve a riddle.
To cause to perceive or understand; to
acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make
certain.
To determine or decide in purpose] to make
ready in mind; to fix; to settle; as, he was resolved by an
unexpected event.
To express, as an opinion or determination,
by resolution and vote; to declare or decide by a formal vote; --
followed by a clause; as, the house resolved (or, it was resolved by
the house) that no money should be apropriated (or, to appropriate no
money).
To change or convert by resolution or
formal vote; -- used only reflexively; as, the house resolved
itself into a committee of the whole.
To solve, as a problem, by
enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is
required; to find the answer to, or the result of.
To dispere or scatter; to
discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor.
To let the tones (as of a
discord) follow their several tendencies, resulting in a
concord.
To relax; to lay at ease.
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