dissolvent

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A dissolvent, made by pouring a strong spirit of Nitre on the rectified Oyl of the Butter of Antimony, and then distilling off all the liquor, that would come over, &c.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry

This striking pair were the two complements of a single noble and solid type, holding tenaciously, in a century of dissolvent speculation, to the best ideas of a society that was slowly passing.

From Burke by Morley, John

Frederick the Great’s base tolerance produced dissolvent effects.

From German Problems and Personalities by Saroléa, Charles

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

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)