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noun

Dissolvent n.

That which has the power of dissolving or melting other substances, esp. by mixture with them; a menstruum; a solvent. "Melted in the crucible dissolvents." "The secret treaty of December acted as an immediate dissolvent to the truce."

(Med.) A remedy supposed capable of dissolving concretions in the body, such as calculi, tubercles, etc.

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Etymology of 'Dissolvent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dissolvent" Quotes from Famous Books

... breaks roughly in upon that starved formalism which had for long lain so heavily both on art and life. Its hardihood, its very license, its contempt of conventions, its presentation of common people and coarse passions and rough lives, all made it a dissolvent of the thin, dry, and frigid rules which tyrannised over the world, and interposed between the artist or the thinker and the real existence of man on the earth. When we think of what European literature was, it ceases to ...

— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists - Volume II. • John Morley

... of these emancipated citizens of the world had permitted the dissolvent philosophy of the century to enter the very pith and fiber of their mental quality. For the rich and the well-born it was rather an imported fashion, an attractive drapery laid over the surface of minds that were conventional down to the ground, the modish mental recreation of men who lived by custom ...

— Beginnings of the American People • Carl Lotus Becker

... cavities, wherein he dipt his finger, and wetted the scab: in seven days it was perfectly cured. This accurate and certain information, I had from my worthy friend Elias Ashmole, Esq. who called Mr. Backhouse father, and had this account from his own mouth. May-Dew is a great dissolvent. ...

— Miscellanies upon Various Subjects • John Aubrey

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