resolvent

It has also some reputation as an alterative and resolvent, and as an anodyne.

It is inflammable, partially soluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.

These processes consist in forming resolvents of the equation corresponding to each distinct type of subgroup of the symmetric group whose degree is that of the equation.

Evidently the method gives for L� a quadric equation, which is the “resolvent” equation in this particular case.

The wife and the big family out at Cospicua, which is near Valletta, seemed to be a powerful resolvent of sentimental ideas.