dissolvent

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And how did Goethe, that grand dissolvent in his age when there were fewer of them than at present, proceed in his task of dissolution, of liberation of the modern European from the old routine?

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Johnson, William Savage

First, that the Air in which we live, move, and breath, and which encompasses very many, and cherishes most bodies it encompasses, that this Air is the menstruum, or universal dissolvent of all Sulphureous bodies.

From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert

Therefore love is a dissolvent: therefore it is a corruptive and a wounding passion.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

This it is that most shakes our vital desire and most intensifies the dissolvent efficacy of reason.

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

By saying this I do not mean to maintain, of course, that private property was not existent, that it was not breaking through the communal system, and acting as a dissolvent of it.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul