dissolvent
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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 Edgar Saltus
On the traditional conception of romantic love inherited from medieval days there can be no doubt that this influence has been highly dissolvent.
From The Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis
A dissolvent, made by pouring a strong spirit of Nitre on the rectified Oyl of the Butter of Antimony, and then distilling off all the liquor, that would come over, &c.
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Henry Oldenburg
The subjects are chosen almost at random, and are very frequently nothing but pegs on which to hang notes and digressions in which the author indulges his critical and dissolvent faculty.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
Every year we see thousands rush to warm and cold springs that have the reputation of being possessed with dissolvent and cathartic properties.
From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by C. W. Wolf
