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noun

Dissolvent n.

That which has the power of dissolving or melting other substances, esp. by mixture with them; a menstruum; a solvent. "Melted in the crucible dissolvents." "The secret treaty of December acted as an immediate dissolvent to the truce."

(Med.) A remedy supposed capable of dissolving concretions in the body, such as calculi, tubercles, etc.

adjective

dissolvent adj. Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dissolvent" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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? He shall tell us himself. "Through me the German poets have become aware that, as man must live from within outwards, ...

— Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold

... indeed indispensable to healthy progress—yet an indiscriminate or superficial administration of this potent medicine may engender other disorders. It acts upon the frame of an antique society as a powerful dissolvent, heating weak brains, stimulating rash ambitions, raising inordinate expectations of which the disappointment is bitterly resented. That these effects are well known even in Europe may be read in a remarkable French novel ...

— Indian Unrest • Valentine Chirol

... moveable by the motion of this fluid medium; much like those very subtile parts of Cochenel, other very deep tinging bodies, where by a very small parcel of matter is able to tinge and diffuse it self over a very great quantity of the fluid dissolvent; or somewhat after that manner, as smoak, and such like minute bodies, or steams, are observ'd to tinge a very great quantity of air; onely this last similitude is deficient in one propriety, and that ...

— Micrographia • Robert Hooke

... 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. For the rich and the well-born it was rather an imported fashion, an attractive drapery laid over the surface of minds that were conventional down to the ground, the modish mental recreation ...

— Beginnings of the American People • Carl Lotus Becker