dissolute, dyssolute

[Lat. di olutus, pa. par. of di olvo =to loosen, to di olve; Fr. dis solu; Ital. & Port. di oluto; Sp. disoluto.] [DISSOLVE.] *I. Lit .: Ungirt; with his armor, ., loosened. "Who him disarmèd, di olute , dismaid, Vnwares surprised." - Spenser : F. Q., L. vii. 51. II. Figuratively : and vice; di olute or vicious mode of living. "To spoil him is a task That bids defiance to the united powers Of fashion, di ipation , taverns, stews." Cowper: Task, ii. 768-70. II. Physics: The insensible lo or waste of the minute parts of a body which fly off, by which means the body is diminished or consumed. *dis-site, a . [Lat. di itus =remote: dis away, apart, and situs =placed.] Removed, distant. "Britaine far di ite from this world of ours."-Holland: Camden , p. 46. *dis-sō-çi-a-bil-I-tý (or çi as shl), s. [Pref. dis , and Eng. sociability (q.v.).] A want of sociability; unsociability. "This di ociability , this dogmatizing, cruel, enslaving principle, is that which makes popery so very dreadful." -Dr. Brett: Friendly Call to the Roman Catholics in Ire land (1757), p. 12.