dissolvent
Example Sentences
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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.
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
It is enough here to remind ourselves how serious a place is held by that work in the dissolvent literature of the generation.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch by Morley, John
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
The dream was agonizing as he tried one dissolvent after another without success.
From Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective by Irvin, Rea
