dissolvent
Example Sentences
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Some of them preferred cementation; others sought the universal alkahest, or dissolvent; and some of them boasted the great efficacy of the essence of emery.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay
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 William Savage Johnson
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
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 Robert Hooke
This it is that most shakes our vital desire and most intensifies the dissolvent efficacy of reason.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
