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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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... the schemes of individual ambition, united with the short-lived military ardor of Philip to place the monarch in an eminently false position, that of hostility to the Pope. As was unavoidable, the secret treaty of December acted as an immediate dissolvent to ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... had so hungered for the dear morsel that now so delightfully crammed, forced all my vital sensations to fix their home there, during the stay of my beloved guest; who too soon paid me for his hearty welcome, in a dissolvent, richer far than that I have heard of some queen treating her paramour with, in liquified pearl, and ravishingly poured into me, where, now myself too much melted to give it a dry reception, I hailed it with the warmest ...

— Memoirs Of Fanny Hill - A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) • John Cleland

... Into this unusually dissolvent medium, chance insisted on enlarging Henry Adams's education by tossing a trio of Virginians as little fitted for it as Sioux Indians to a treadmill. By some further affinity, these three outsiders fell into relation with ...

— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams

... great dissolvent of many things with the sunne, that will not be dissolved any other way; which putts me in mind of the rationality of the method used by Wm. Gore of Clapton, Esq}. for his gout; which was, to walke in the dewe ...

— The Natural History of Wiltshire • John Aubrey

... 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, so the artist ...

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

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