solute

1. (obsolete) To dissolve.Examples: "In summer, the action of the air as a menstruum, is rendered so powerful by the increase of heat, that water is immediately and intimately combined with it: for when the particles of water are influenced by heat, and acted upon by a dry, warm air, they easilty rise therein, and become soluted in the atmosphere."; "In the present day they hold out that the metallic calces are soluted in acids, accordingly as they possess oxygen."; "Porter, in old times, was brewed only with brown malts; from the hardness of which, and the fire they contained, Thames water seems better adapted than any other to solute the saccharine substance of those malts."obsolete

2. (obsolete) To solve; to expose the errors of; to explainExamples: "to solute sin"; "Because ye desire your argument to be soluted, at your own request I will take some paine: God grant it may profit!"; "If thys argument be not good reproue it in your answere and solute it not withe a fyre or a rope as ye vse comunly to do God send yow hys holy sprete."obsolete

3. (obsolete) Alternative form of salute.Examples: "To whom Ledovick the Emperour, descending from his Horse, fell down upon the Earth thrice before his feete, and the third time soluted him thus, blessed be the Lord God, who commeth in the Name of the Lord, and who hath shined upon us."; "but yet nothing of danger visible, when in the midst of this his fear and languishing, he was by one of the Secretaries, who knew nothing of the design, called into the Kings Privy Chamber, whereupon, having soluted each of the company, as if he took his last farewell of them, going directly thither, he was no sooner entred, but the dore was boulted, and one of those who were appointed for the business, struck a dagger through his throat downward into his breast, whereby his mouth was presently filled with bloud, and stopped, that he could not speak, but only fetch so deep a groan as was heard with horror by those who stood by."; "The minstrel advanced, and soluted the company with the air of one more accustomed to grant protection than crave it."alt-ofalternativeobsolete