solvent

& s. [Lat. solvens, gen it. solvent is, pr. par. of solvo =to solve (q. v.).] A. As adjective : 1. Having the power or quality of di olving. 2. Able to pay or meet all just debts or claims. "He [the good man] thinks God abundantly solvent , and himself never the poorer for laying out in his behalf."- Barrow : Sermons, vol. i., ser. 31. 3. Sufficient to meet and pay all just debts or claims. "The directors and other shareholders contended that the company was solvent ." -London Standard. B. As substantive: Chem.: Any liquid or menstruum which may be employed to absorb or take up into solution a solid, a gas, or another liquid. "By a substitution of burnt alum for vitriol, but in a far le proportion, we made solvents for silver."- Boyle : Works, iii. 450. fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fall, lest the report that he had been converted and lost caste might, by a law then existing in Bengal, de prive his children of their inheritance. Rammohun predicted that after his death Christians, Hindus, and Mohammedans would all claim him. They did; but in his final stage of religious evolution he seems to have held only the doctrines of philosophic theism or natural religion. ( Calcutta Review , iv. 355-393.) The Brahma Somáj, when deprived of its founder, languished for a time, but in 1841 it received a fresh impulse from Babu Debendra Nath Tagore, and again made way, drawing to it many of the youths educated in the Hindu College and the Mi ionary Institutions. As numbers increased, it became evident that there were in the Somaja conservative and a progre ive party, and about 1863 the latter broke off from the a ociation on the question of the divine authority of the Vedas, and, under the leadership of Babu Keshub Chunder Sen, founded what they considered churches rather than societies throughout Bengal, the northwestern provinces, the Punjaub, Bombay, and Madras. In 1870 Keshub visited England, finding his nearest allies in the Unitarians. Both sections have sing ing, prayer, and addre es or sermons in their a emblies. The seceding brethren consider themselves to be founding the Indian Church of the future, adopting the e ence of the gospel without the distinctive doctrines of Christianity. sō-măt, pref. [SOMATO-.]