a. and sb. ? Obs. [ad. L. corrōdent-em, pr. pple. of corrōdĕre to CORRODE.]
A. adj. Corroding, corrosive.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 61/2. If the same be to corrodent, diffude as then that wyne, and take other.
1835. Hoog, in Fraser’s Mag., XI. 673. Corrodent vapours of the cave.
B. sb. Med. A corrosive agent. Also fig.
1614. Bp. J. King, Vitis Palatina, 19. The physicke of that good Samaritan in the Gospell, wherein there was morsus & mollities, a corrodent and lenient, compunction and consolation.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Corrodents, corrodentia … such things as eat, consume, or destroy excrescent flesh.
