Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Dissolving in the chemical sense.
  • Pertaining to or characterized by dissolution or disintegration.

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Examples

  • Much of the content is certainly rubbish, matter that Myers calls dissolutive, stuff that dreams are made of, fragments of lapsed memory, mechanical effects of habit and ordinary suggestion; some belongs to a middle region where a strange manufacture of inner romances perpetually goes on; finally, some of the content appears superiorly and subtly perceptive.

    Memories and Studies William James 1876

  • Imperfect memories, silly jingles, inhibitive timidities, "dissolutive" phenomena of various sorts, as Myers calls them, enters into it for a large part.

    The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

  • Imperfect memories, silly jingles, inhibitive timidities, "dissolutive" phenomena of various sorts, as

    Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876

  • It should be noted that a dissolutive element present at the very beginning of some of these was that political parties were represented as other unions.

    2009 June 2009

  • It should be noted that a dissolutive element present at the very beginning of some of these was that political parties were represented as other unions.

    The Transformation of the World-Robert Chasse 2009

  • The two former insure the heterogeneity, while "segregation" brings about the definiteness and coherence, and "equilibration" arrests the process, and determines when dissolutive changes shall begin.

    Memories and Studies William James 1876

  • Subliminal who, not having themselves met with anything super-normal, would probably not hesitate to call all the reports of it erroneous, and who would limit the Subliminal to dissolutive phenomena of consciousness exclusively, to lapsed memories, subconscious sensations, impulses and

    Memories and Studies William James 1876

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