ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not dissolved by loosening, undoing, annulling, dismissing, etc.
1535. Act 27 Hen. VIII., c. 26 § 15. Every suche celle shalbe … ondyssolvyd … as yf this Acte had never be made.
1598. Drayton, Heroical Ep., 23 b. By that firme and vndissolued knot, Betwixt the neighboring French, and bordering Scot.
1649. Milton, Eikon., v. 45. As necessity of affaires call’d them, so the same necessity should keep them undissolv’d, till that were fully satisfi’d.
1833. Keble, Serm., vi. (1848), 127. Those members of the Church also believe … the oaths and obligations … undissolved and indissoluble.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng., I. 166. By the Law he could not have formed a second engagement so long as the first was undissolved.
2. Not broken up; not dissolved by natural decay.
1603. Knolles, Hist. Turks (1621), 54. [Andronicus’ body] is yet there vndissolued to be seene.
1615. Chapman, Odyss., XII. 594. The mast torn down Tore her up piece-meal, and for me to drown Left little undissolved.
1759. Johnson, Rasselas, xlvii. It is commonly supposed that the Egyptians believed the soul to live as long as the body continued undissolved.
3. Not reduced to a soft or liquid state; unmelted.
1674. trans. Scheffer’s Lapland, iii. 8. The snows which as well in Summer as Winter continue undissolved.
1694. Salmon, Bate’s Dispens. (1713), 150/1. That which remains undissolv’d … is the acid or saline Part of the Sulphur.
1765. A. Dickson, Treat. Agric. (ed. 2), 377. Some things are digested … by some animals, that pass thro’ others sound and undissolved.
1807. T. Thomson, Chem. (ed. 3), II. 461. The dissolved portion having the properties of a resin; the undissolved, of asphaltum.
1868. Amer. Naturalist, I. 39. Ice accumulates … during the winter, and lies undissolved until late in spring.
