His Heart Scribe Inspirations Devotional Magazine January 2014 January Issue 2014 | Page 17

ere we stand at the
precipice of a new year,
a new hope, a new desire, a new beginning,
and what do we do
with it, even before we enter into the
new year. We set ourselves up to fail,
by making promises, we either can’t,
won’t, or don’t keep, you know the
ones I’m talking about, the New Year
resolution.

4. In music, the resolution of a dissonance,
is the carrying of it, according to rule, into a
consonance in the subsequent chord.

RESOLU'TION, n. [L.resolutio. See Resolve.]

1. The act, operation or process of separating the parts which compose a complex
idea or a mixed body; the act of reducing
any compound or combination to its component parts; analysis; as the resolution of
complex ideas; the resolution of any material substance by chemical operations.

5. In medicine, the disappearing of any tumor without coming to suppuration; the dispersing of inflammation.
6. Fixed purpose or determination of mind;
as a resolution to reform our lives; a resolution to undertake an expedition.

2. The act or process of unraveling or disentangling perplexities, or of dissipating obscurity in moral subjects; as the resolution
of difficult questions in moral science.

7. The effect of fixed purpose; firmness,
steadiness or constancy in execution, implying courage.

3. Dissolution; the natural process of separating the component parts of bodies.

8. Determination of a cause in a court of justice; as a judicial resolution.
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