dissolvent

Example Sentences

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If dissolvent ideas do make their way, it is because the society was already ripe for dissolution.

From On Compromise by Morley, John

Take any of the dogmatic systems that have resulted from the latest Protestant dissolvent analysis—that of Kaftan, the follower of Ritschl, for example—and note the extent to which eschatology is reduced.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

That dissolvent, which stimulates and pricks the stomach, does, by that very uneasiness, prepare for it a very lively pleasure, when its craving is satisfied by the aliments. 

From The Existence of God by Morley, Henry

Subsequently, under the dissolvent influences of Versailles and through ridicule’s more annihilating might, though manners persisted morals did not.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

Very seldom a disease is met with, that is permitted to run its course without dissolvent or cathartic means.

From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by Wolf, C. W.