resolve
resolve
v. trans.
Break up: Ar. and P. διᾰλύ̄ειν.
Solve: P. and V. λύ̄ειν.
Determine (with infin.): P. and V. βουλεύειν, ἐννοεῖν, νοεῖν, γιγνώσκειν, P. γνώμην ποιεῖσθαι, Ar. and P. διᾰνοεῖσθαι, ἐπῐνοεῖν.
I have resolved (with infin.): P. and V. δοκεῖ μοι, δέδοκταί μοι.
The Senate resolved: Ar. and P. ἔδοξε τῇ βουλῇ.
v. trans.
Break up: Ar. and P. διᾰλύ̄ειν.
Solve: P. and V. λύ̄ειν.
Determine (with infin.): P. and V. βουλεύειν, ἐννοεῖν, νοεῖν, γιγνώσκειν, P. γνώμην ποιεῖσθαι, Ar. and P. διᾰνοεῖσθαι, ἐπῐνοεῖν.
I have resolved (with infin.): P. and V. δοκεῖ μοι, δέδοκταί μοι.
The Senate resolved: Ar. and P. ἔδοξε τῇ βουλῇ.
resolve
subs.
P. and V. γνώμη, ἡ, βουλή, ἡ, βούλευμα, τό, V. γνῶμα, τό, φρόνησις, ἡ, Ar. and P. διά̆νοια, ἡ.
subs.
P. and V. γνώμη, ἡ, βουλή, ἡ, βούλευμα, τό, V. γνῶμα, τό, φρόνησις, ἡ, Ar. and P. διά̆νοια, ἡ.
RESOLVE
Transitively To dissolve solvere: dissolvere: resolvere; if = liquefy liquefacere: liquare: diluere.
To separate dissolvere: sejungere: secernere.
To solve solvere (quaestionem Gell.); dissolvere (interrogationem Cic.); solvere (aenigma Quint.); solvere resolvere (ambiguitatem Quint.); tollere (dubitationem Cic.).
Intransitively To determine statuere constituere decernere upon anything aliquid or followed by an infinitive (to fix settle determine): consilium capere (to form a determination or resolution: followed by the gerund in -di or infinitive or ut; Vid: in “to form a RESOLUTION”): inducere animum or in animum (to bring one’s mind to; followed by an infinitive or ut): decernere (PROP. to decree that anything shall take place; then = to resolve): apud animum statuere constituere (to fix settle): destinare animo proponere (to propose to one’s self: ☞ the latter without animo especially in the Silver Age): censere placet alicui (of the Senate): sciscere: jubere. (The words are found in this connection and order.) sciscere jubereque (to make a law or ordinance sciscere especially of the plebs jubere of the populus; Vid: commentators on Nep. Arist. 1 4; Heusingg. Cic. Off. 3 11 1): I am resolved certum est mihi; stat mihi (sententia); statutum habeo cum animo et deliberatum: to be sufficiently resolved upon etc. satis habere consilium de etc. (Cic. Att. 12 50 extr.). [Vid: also “my RESOLUTION is firm. “] Not to be able to resolve on anything animi or animo pendere; varie or in diversas partes distrahi; certum consilium capere non posse; certa aliqua in sententia consistere non posse; haereo quid faciam; in incerto habeo quidnam consilii capiam.
Transitively To dissolve solvere: dissolvere: resolvere; if = liquefy liquefacere: liquare: diluere.
To separate dissolvere: sejungere: secernere.
To solve solvere (quaestionem Gell.); dissolvere (interrogationem Cic.); solvere (aenigma Quint.); solvere resolvere (ambiguitatem Quint.); tollere (dubitationem Cic.).
Intransitively To determine statuere constituere decernere upon anything aliquid or followed by an infinitive (to fix settle determine): consilium capere (to form a determination or resolution: followed by the gerund in -di or infinitive or ut; Vid: in “to form a RESOLUTION”): inducere animum or in animum (to bring one’s mind to; followed by an infinitive or ut): decernere (PROP. to decree that anything shall take place; then = to resolve): apud animum statuere constituere (to fix settle): destinare animo proponere (to propose to one’s self: ☞ the latter without animo especially in the Silver Age): censere placet alicui (of the Senate): sciscere: jubere. (The words are found in this connection and order.) sciscere jubereque (to make a law or ordinance sciscere especially of the plebs jubere of the populus; Vid: commentators on Nep. Arist. 1 4; Heusingg. Cic. Off. 3 11 1): I am resolved certum est mihi; stat mihi (sententia); statutum habeo cum animo et deliberatum: to be sufficiently resolved upon etc. satis habere consilium de etc. (Cic. Att. 12 50 extr.). [Vid: also “my RESOLUTION is firm. “] Not to be able to resolve on anything animi or animo pendere; varie or in diversas partes distrahi; certum consilium capere non posse; certa aliqua in sententia consistere non posse; haereo quid faciam; in incerto habeo quidnam consilii capiam.
resolve (v.):
I. To separate into parts:
1. dissolvo, vi, lūtum, 3: if the soul is a harmony it will be r.d, si animus est harmonia dissolvetur, Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 24: we see that anything can be more rapidly r.d than reconstructed, quidvis citius dissolvi posse videmus quam refici, Lucr. 1, 556: as a medic. t. t. in Plin. 20, 12, 48 (in which sense also digerere, discutere are used by Plin. and Cels.): v.DISSOLVE , MELT .
2. dissĭpo, 1: others think the soul is r.d into its elements, alii animum censent dissipari, Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 18: v.DISPERSE , SEPARATE .
II. To solve, explain:
1. dissolvo, vi, sŏlūtum, 3: how do you r. these points? illa quemadmodum dissolvitis? Cic. N. D. 3, 12, 29.
2. solvo, vi, sŏlūtum, 3 v.SOLVE , EXPLAIN .
III. As t. t. in music: rĕsolvo, vi, lūtum, 3 (Kircher. Musurg. vol. i. p. 334, sq. Rome, 1650).
IV. To determine:
1. stătuo, ui, ūtum, 3 (constr. with acc. and inf., rel. clause, or subj.): he had r.d to fight a battle, statuerat praelio decertare, Caes. B. C. 3, 86 they r. to send 10,000 men into the town, statuunt ut x millia hominum in oppidum mittantur, id. B. G. 7, 21: I had r.d to go straight along the Appian road to Rome, statueram recta Appia Romam (sc. ire), Cic. Att. 16, 10.
2. constituo, ui, ūtum, 3 (constr. mostly with inf.): he r.d to wage war, bellum gerere constituit, Caes. B. G. 4, 6.
3. dēcerno, crēvi, crētum, 3: he had r.d to cross the Rhine, Rhenum transire decreverat, Caes. B. G. 4, 17: to r. to spend the rest of one's days far from public life, reliquam aetatem a re publica procul habendam d., Sall. C. 4.
4. dēlībĕro, 1 (mostly in part.): he had determined and r.d not to be present, statuerat et deliberaverat non adesse, Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 1. Join: d. et constituere, id. Agr. 1, 8, 25.
5. obstĭno, 1 (rarely absol. foll. by inf., to be r.d on: constr. with acc., ad, or inf.): they had r.d to conquer or to die, obstinaverant animis aut vincere aut mori, Liv. 23, 29: v.DETERMINE .
6. indūco, xi, ctum, 3 (constr. with animum or in animum, and a foll. inf. or subj.): to r. to speak about divination, animum i. de divinatione dicere, Cic. Div. 1, 13, 22: to r. to labour and to watch, in animum i., laborare, vigilare, Sall. C. 54.
7. expr. by certum est (constr. with dat. of person r.ing): I have r.d to say everything, certum est deliberatumque omnia dicere, Cic. Rosc. Am. 11, 31: I have r.d to go to a physician, certum est, ibo ad medicum, Pl. Merc. 2, 4, 4.
8. expr. sometimes by fut. part.: r.d nowhere to trust himself to fortune, nullo loco fortunae se commissurus, Liv. 22, 12, ad init.: they go to battle r.d to die, *vadunt in praelium perituri, Nägelsb. Stil. p. 313. Phr.: I am r.d, consilium est mihi, Cic. Att. 5, 5: news is brought that the Helvetians were r.d to march, renuntiatur Helvetiis esse in animo iter facere, Caes. B. G. 1, 10: if I were not firmly and unalterably r.d, si mihi non animo fixuro immotumque sederet, Virg. Aen. 4, 15: if I were quite r.d upon anything, si satis consilium quadam de re haberem, Cic. Att. 12, 50.
V. To pass a formal resolution:
1. censeo, 2 (used prop. of the Senate: constr. with acc. and inf., or subj.): the Senate r.d that he should defend the Aedui, senatus censuit uti Aeduos defenderet, Caes. B. G. 1, 35: v.DECREE .
2. plăcet, plăcuit, and plăcĭtum est, 2 (to be approved or r.d on: constr. with acc. and inf., or subj. clause): it was r.d that letters should be written, placitum est ut epistolae scriberentur, Tac. A. 1, 36: Caes. B. G. 7, 15.
I. To separate into parts:
1. dissolvo, vi, lūtum, 3: if the soul is a harmony it will be r.d, si animus est harmonia dissolvetur, Cic. Tusc. 1, 11, 24: we see that anything can be more rapidly r.d than reconstructed, quidvis citius dissolvi posse videmus quam refici, Lucr. 1, 556: as a medic. t. t. in Plin. 20, 12, 48 (in which sense also digerere, discutere are used by Plin. and Cels.): v.
2. dissĭpo, 1: others think the soul is r.d into its elements, alii animum censent dissipari, Cic. Tusc. 1, 9, 18: v.
II. To solve, explain:
1. dissolvo, vi, sŏlūtum, 3: how do you r. these points? illa quemadmodum dissolvitis? Cic. N. D. 3, 12, 29.
2. solvo, vi, sŏlūtum, 3 v.
III. As t. t. in music: rĕsolvo, vi, lūtum, 3 (Kircher. Musurg. vol. i. p. 334, sq. Rome, 1650).
IV. To determine:
1. stătuo, ui, ūtum, 3 (constr. with acc. and inf., rel. clause, or subj.): he had r.d to fight a battle, statuerat praelio decertare, Caes. B. C. 3, 86 they r. to send 10,000 men into the town, statuunt ut x millia hominum in oppidum mittantur, id. B. G. 7, 21: I had r.d to go straight along the Appian road to Rome, statueram recta Appia Romam (sc. ire), Cic. Att. 16, 10.
2. constituo, ui, ūtum, 3 (constr. mostly with inf.): he r.d to wage war, bellum gerere constituit, Caes. B. G. 4, 6.
3. dēcerno, crēvi, crētum, 3: he had r.d to cross the Rhine, Rhenum transire decreverat, Caes. B. G. 4, 17: to r. to spend the rest of one's days far from public life, reliquam aetatem a re publica procul habendam d., Sall. C. 4.
4. dēlībĕro, 1 (mostly in part.): he had determined and r.d not to be present, statuerat et deliberaverat non adesse, Cic. Verr. 1, 1, 1. Join: d. et constituere, id. Agr. 1, 8, 25.
5. obstĭno, 1 (rarely absol. foll. by inf., to be r.d on: constr. with acc., ad, or inf.): they had r.d to conquer or to die, obstinaverant animis aut vincere aut mori, Liv. 23, 29: v.
6. indūco, xi, ctum, 3 (constr. with animum or in animum, and a foll. inf. or subj.): to r. to speak about divination, animum i. de divinatione dicere, Cic. Div. 1, 13, 22: to r. to labour and to watch, in animum i., laborare, vigilare, Sall. C. 54.
7. expr. by certum est (constr. with dat. of person r.ing): I have r.d to say everything, certum est deliberatumque omnia dicere, Cic. Rosc. Am. 11, 31: I have r.d to go to a physician, certum est, ibo ad medicum, Pl. Merc. 2, 4, 4.
8. expr. sometimes by fut. part.: r.d nowhere to trust himself to fortune, nullo loco fortunae se commissurus, Liv. 22, 12, ad init.: they go to battle r.d to die, *vadunt in praelium perituri, Nägelsb. Stil. p. 313. Phr.: I am r.d, consilium est mihi, Cic. Att. 5, 5: news is brought that the Helvetians were r.d to march, renuntiatur Helvetiis esse in animo iter facere, Caes. B. G. 1, 10: if I were not firmly and unalterably r.d, si mihi non animo fixuro immotumque sederet, Virg. Aen. 4, 15: if I were quite r.d upon anything, si satis consilium quadam de re haberem, Cic. Att. 12, 50.
V. To pass a formal resolution:
1. censeo, 2 (used prop. of the Senate: constr. with acc. and inf., or subj.): the Senate r.d that he should defend the Aedui, senatus censuit uti Aeduos defenderet, Caes. B. G. 1, 35: v.
2. plăcet, plăcuit, and plăcĭtum est, 2 (to be approved or r.d on: constr. with acc. and inf., or subj. clause): it was r.d that letters should be written, placitum est ut epistolae scriberentur, Tac. A. 1, 36: Caes. B. G. 7, 15.