[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

resolve \resolve"\ r?z?lv", v. t. imp.  p. p. resolved
   -z?lvd"; p. pr.  vb. n. resolving. l. resolvere,
   resolutum, to untie, loosen, relax, enfeeble; pref. re- re- +
   solvere to loosen, dissolve: cf. f. r'esoudare to resolve.
   see solve, and cf. resolve, v. i., resolute,
   resolution.
   1. to separate the component parts of; to reduce to the
      constituent elements; -- said of compound substances;
      hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.
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            o, that this too too solid flesh would melt,
            thaw, and resolve itself into a dew  --shak.
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            ye immortal souls, who once were men,
            and now resolved to elements again.   --dryden.
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   2. 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. "resolve my doubt." --shak.
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            to the resolving whereof we must first know that the
            jews were commanded to divorce an unbelieving
            gentile.                              --milton.
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   3. to cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to
      inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
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            sir, be resolved. i must and will come. --beau. 
                                                  fl.
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            resolve me, reason, which of these is worse,
            want with a full, or with an empty purse? --pope.
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            in health, good air, pleasure, riches, i am resolved
            it can not be equaled by any region.  --sir w.
                                                  raleigh.
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            we must be resolved how the law can be pure and
            perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over
            these eleusinian mysteries.           --milton.
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   4. to determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind;
      to fix; to settle; as, he was resolved by an unexpected
      event.
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   5. 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.
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   6. to change or convert by resolution or formal vote; -- used
      only reflexively; as, the house resolved itself into a
      committee of the whole.
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   7. math. 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. --hutton.
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   8. med. to dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an
      inflammation or a tumor.
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   9. mus. to let the tones as of a discord follow their
      several tendencies, resulting in a concord.
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   10. to relax; to lay at ease. obs. --b. jonson.
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   to resolve a nebula.astron. see resolution of a nebula,
      under resolution.
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   syn: to solve; analyze; unravel; disentangle.
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see also:
resolved resolving solve resolve resolute resolution 
to resolve a nebula resolution of a nebula 

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