dissolūtiō ōnis, f dissolvo, a dissolving, destroying, breaking up, dissolution: naturae, i. e. death.

— Fig., an abolishing, destruction: legum omnium: imperii, Ta.

—A refutation: criminum.

—In rhet., a want of connection, asyndeton, C.

— Of character, looseness, effeminacy, dissoluteness: animi: iudiciorum.