dissolvern.
/dɪˈzɒlvə/ One who or that which dissolves.
1. One who or that which breaks up, disintegrates, destroys, puts an end to, etc.: see the verb.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys
baneOE
losera1340
leeserc1380
stroyerc1380
destroyer1382
ravenerc1390
castera1400
confounder1401
wastera1425
stroyc1440
undoerc1440
unmakerc1450
confounderess1509
hydraa1513
stroy-good1540
abolisher1548
thunderbolt1559
disannullera1572
stroy-all1573
ruiner1581
down-puller1583
murdererc1585
spendingc1595
blaster1598
assassin1609
ruinater1609
dissolver1611
minerc1614
destructioner1621
fordoer1631
sinker1632
destructive1640
deletery1642
assassinatea1658
ruinator1658
destroyeress1662
destructora1691
dissolvent1835
solvent1841
wrecker1882
destructant1889
1611 Bible (King James) Dan. v. 12 Dissoluing of doubts [margin. of a dissoluer] . View more context for this quotation
1641 J. Milton Of Prelatical Episc. 12 These men were the dissolvers of Episcopacie.
1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II. at Blackness Fire, and that yet more subtle Dissolver Putrefaction.
1883 M. Williams Relig. Thought & Life in India iii. 44 Rudra-Siva, the Dissolver and Reproducer.
2. A substance that dissolves another substance; a solvent: see dissolve v. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of dissolving > [noun] > solvent
menstruea1550
menstruum1559
dissolvent1646
dissolver1651
solvent1671
resolvent1678
solutive1712
diluter1718
diluent1775
1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋80 Such dissolvers, as are wont to be made of Aqua fortis and Regis.
a1788 J. Wesley Serm. lviii, in Wks. (1811) IX. 114 It is the universal menstruum, the dissolver of all things under the Sun.
3.
Thesaurus »
a. An apparatus for dissolving some substance.
b. A contrivance for producing dissolving views: see dissolving adj. b.
c. Cinematography and Television An apparatus for dissolving a picture; also attributive.
ΚΠ
1880 J. Lomas Man. Alkali Trade 226 The top of the dissolver being covered with thin sheet iron.
1892 Daily News 9 Feb. 3/5 Apropos of dissolving views, an automatic dissolver has been lately invented which will work in any single lantern.
1912 F. H. Richardson Motion Picture Handbk. (ed. 2) 375 The lamps of a dissolver should each one be connected just as though the other one did not exist.
1912 F. H. Richardson Motion Picture Handbk. (ed. 2) 377 To construct a home-made dissolver shutter.
1912 F. H. Richardson Motion Picture Handbk. (ed. 2) 377 Your dissolver lens must be matched.
1915 F. H. Richardson Motion Picture Handbk. (ed. 3) 604 The upper dissolver lamp must be supplied with amperage equal to the projection machine arc.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
<
n.1611