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Definition of Dissipates
1. dissipate [v] - See also: dissipate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissipates
Literary usage of Dissipates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Means and Ends of Universal Education by Ira Mayhew (1860)
"We remark, then, first, that EDUCATION dissipates THE EVILS OF IGNORANCE.
Ignorance is one principal cause of the want of virtue, and of the immoralities ..."
2. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"... three times a week, dissipates majestically at the cider cellars afterwards,
and is a dirty caricature of the fashion which expired six months ago. ..."
3. A handbook of therapeutics by Sydney Ringer (1873)
"... the property of changing the vitality of the tissues, and produces rapid
cicatrization, dissipates the inflammation and hypertrophy, and relieves pain. ..."
4. The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated by William Warburton (1837)
"that the interpretation here given entirely dissipates all those blustering
objections which infidelity hath raised up against the historic truth of the ..."
5. The Golden Verses of Pythagoras by Pythagoras, Antoine Fabre D'olivet, Nayán Louise Redfield (1917)
"... the truth, which he attains by his union with the Being of beings, dissipates
the darkness with which his intelligence is obsessed; and both of them, ..."
6. When we were boys: A Novel by William O'Brien (1890)
"HANS BARMAN dissipates ' THAT is all you have learned. Why I knew this all along.
There are not many things that happen here unknown to me. ..."
7. Popular Education; for the Use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young by Ira Mayhew (1850)
"We remark, then, first, that EDUCATION dissipates THE EVILS OF IGNORANCE.
Ignorance is one principal cause of the want of virtue, ..."
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