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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... to produce a confusion and anarchy which invited the interposition of a great power, and rendered resistance to such a power difficult. Christianity, which was daily spreading itself more and more widely, acted as a dissolvent upon the previously-existing forms of society, loosening the old ties, dividing man from man by an irreconcilable division, and not giving much indication as yet of its power to combine and unite. Judaism, embittered by persecution, had from a nationality become ...

— The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia • George Rawlinson

... of opinion may find some interest in comparing Miss Martineau's work with the famous book, Ruins; or, Meditations on the Revolutions of Empires, in which Volney, between fifty and sixty years before, had drawn equally dissolvent conclusions with her own from the same panorama of the dead ages. Perhaps Miss Martineau's history is not much better than Volney's, but her brisk sense is preferable to Volney's high a ...

— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) - Essay 6: Harriet Martineau • John Morley

... obsolete term,) means a most pure and universal menstruum or dissolvent, with which some chemists have pretended to resolve all bodies into their first elements, and perform ...

— Thaumaturgia • An Oxonian

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