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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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... of the history of opinion may find some interest in comparing Miss Martineau's work with the famous book, Ruins; or, Meditations on the Revolutions of Empires, in which Volney, between fifty and sixty years before, had drawn equally dissolvent conclusions with her own from the same panorama of the dead ages. Perhaps Miss Martineau's history is not much better than Volney's, but her brisk sense is preferable to Volney's high a priori declamation and ...

— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) - Essay 6: Harriet Martineau • John Morley

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