dissolvent

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Yet few 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.

From Beginnings of the American People by Dodd, William E.

Very seldom a disease is met with, that is permitted to run its course without dissolvent or cathartic means.

From Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent by Wolf, C. W.

The organism of both tongues may be destroyed, but the dissolvent force is also an organic and vital one, and from the ruins of both constructs a speech of grander plans and with wider views.

From The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

If dissolvent ideas do make their way, it is because the society was already ripe for dissolution.

From On Compromise by Morley, John

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