1762,Charles Johnstone,The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools[1], volume 2, Dublin:[…] Dillon Chamberlaine,→OCLC, page202:
At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, butreſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them[…]
(transitive) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
Gentlemen, importune me no farther, / For hovv I firmly amreſolu'd you knovv: / That is, not to beſtovv my yongeſt daughter, / Before I haue a husband for the elder:[…]
To come to anagreement or makepeace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
After two weeks ofbickering, they finallyresolved their differences.
We must beresolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries.
1733 (indicated as1732),[Alexander] Pope,Of the Use of Riches, an Epistle to the Right Honourable Allen Lord Bathurst, London:[…] J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver[…],→OCLC,page16:
Reſolve me Reaſon, vvhich of theſe is vvorſe, / VVant vvith a full, or vvith an empty purſe:[…]
She was proceeding in this manner when the surgeon entered the room. The lieutenant immediately asked how his patient did. But heresolved him only by saying, "Better, I believe, than he would have been by this time, if I had not been called; and even as it is, perhaps it would have been lucky if I could have been called sooner."
The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution,resolving incoming images in minute detail.
c.1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe],Tamburlaine the Great.[…] The First Part[…], 2nd edition, part 1, London:[…][R. Robinson for] Richard Iones,[…], published1592,→OCLC; reprinted asTamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press,1973,→ISBN,(please specify the page):
With milke-white Hartes vpon an Iuorie ſled, / Thou ſhalt be drawen amidſt the froſen Pooles, / And ſcale the yſie mountaines lofty tops: / Which with thy beautie will be soonereſolu’d.
1731,John Arbuthnot,An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies.[…], London:[…]J[acob] Tonson[…],→OCLC:
When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, thenresolves, and turns alkaline.
It took all myresolve to go through with the surgery.
2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, inThe A.V. Club[3], archived fromthe original on15 May 2019:
Stripped of all bravado, Cersei breaks, and shows the very scared, vulnerable woman who has kept her emotions at bay. “I don’t want to die,” she whimpers, “Not like this.” It’s all the more moving for coming from a character who built her identity on steelyresolve and contempt for such hoary conceits as fear.
2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, inBBC Sport[4]:
Alan Pardew's current squad has been put together with a relatively low budget but theresolve and unity within the team is priceless.
2018, Jhariah Clare, “Sunsets (Resilience)”, inThe Great Tale of How I Ruined it All:
I wish for unendingresolve, to always get up when I fall.
(countable) A determination to do something; a fixed decision.
1995, William Arctander O'Brien,Novalis, Signs of Revolution, page56:
Hisresolve to die is weakening as he grows accustomed to Sophie's absence, and all his attempts to master irresolution only augment it.
2008, Matt Lombard,SolidWorks 2007 Bible, page956:
Some operations require data that, in turn, requires that lightweight components be resolved. In these cases, this option determines whether the user is prompted to approve theresolve or whether components are just resolved automatically.
