dissolvent
Americanadjective
noun
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of dissolvent
First recorded in 1640–50, dissolvent is from the Latin word dissolvent- (stem of dissolvēns, present participle of dissolvere ). See dis- 1, solvent
Example Sentences
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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)
Yet few of these emancipated citizens of the world had permitted the dissolvent philosophy of the century to enter the very pith and fiber of their mental quality.
From Beginnings of the American People by Dodd, William E.
But Césarine was, like her aunt, a born dissolvent of society's vital elements.
From The Son of Clemenceau by Dumas fils, Alexandre
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 Wolf, C. W.
That science was Geology; a science destined, in its ultimate scope, to prove a far more powerful dissolvent of dogma than any of its compeers.
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward
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