dissolvent

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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

The dream was agonizing as he tried one dissolvent after another without success.

From Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective by Irvin, Rea

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

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

As in the case of Hume's metaphysical studies, they constitute the most powerful dissolvent the century was to see.

From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph