Verb

(resolv)

To find a solution to (a problem).

To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.

to resolve a riddle

* Shakespeare

Resolve my doubt.

To solve again.

To make a firm decision to do something.

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To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.

He was resolved by an unexpected event.

To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.

(transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.

* Shakespeare

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!

* Dryden

Ye immortal souls, who once were men, / And now resolved to elements again.

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To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.

* Alexander Pope

Resolve me, Reason, which of these is worse, / Want with a full, or with an empty purse?

* Sir Walter Raleigh

In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it can not be equalled by any region.

* Milton

We must be resolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries.

(music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.

(computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.

(rare) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).

(rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.

* Arbuthnot

When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves , and turns alkaline.

(obsolete) To liquefy (a gas or vapour).

(medicine, dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.

(obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease.

(Ben Jonson)

Verb

(en verb)

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

* ...then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain... --Lev. 27:18, King James Version .

I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. .

To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.

* He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke 23:37, King James Version

* For him I reckon not in high estate. .

To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.

* ...faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Romans 4:9, King James Version.

* Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. .

To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause;

* For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. --Romans 8:18, King James Version.

* Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin... --Romans 6:11, King James Version

* I reckon he won't try that again.

To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.

To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

* Parfay," sayst thou, sometime he reckon shall." .