to untie, unfasten, unbind, loose, loosen, release,
open: equos, unyoke, O.: fila,
separate, O.: oras, cast loose, L.: resoluta catenis Incedit virgo, i. e. release, O.: litteras, L.: iugulum mucrone, O.: faucīs haec in verba, O.: fatis
ora, V.: dolos tecti ambagesque (Labyrinthi), i.
e. explain, V.: nivem, melt, O.: Venus
tenebras resolvit, V.: Zephyro se glaeba
resolvit, is softened, V.—To relax, unnerve, enervate, enfeeble:
(Cerberus) inmania terga resolvit Fusus humi, stretched
out, V.: utrumque (concubitus), O.: corpus (somno), O.: resolutis membris,
Cu.—Fig., to set free, release: Teque piacula nulla
resolvent, H.—To do away, cancel, make void, dispel: litem quod lite resolvit, H.: Invitat
genialis hiemps curasque resolvit, V.: iura
(pudoris), V.
Lewis, Charlton, T. An Elementary Latin Dictionary. New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago. American Book Company. 1890.
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