dissolvent

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The subjects are chosen almost at random, and are very frequently nothing but pegs on which to hang notes and digressions in which the author indulges his critical and dissolvent faculty.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

But Césarine was, like her aunt, a born dissolvent of society's vital elements.

From The Son of Clemenceau by Dumas fils, Alexandre

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

Subsequently, under the dissolvent influences of Versailles and through ridicule’s more annihilating might, though manners persisted morals did not.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

By saying this I do not mean to maintain, of course, that private property was not existent, that it was not breaking through the communal system, and acting as a dissolvent of it.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul