dissolvent

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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.

The dream was agonizing as he tried one dissolvent after another without success.

From Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective by Irvin, Rea

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)

The stomach has a dissolvent that causes hunger, and puts man in mind of his want of food. 

From The Existence of God by Morley, Henry

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