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polychrestic en · ADJ

Etymology

From polychrest + -ic.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Able to be used in various ways.
   • Next in order to these polychrestic medicines come the following […] 1862, Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, Hull's Jahr: A New Manual of Homœopathic Practice, page 377:
   • Theoretically, at least, sulphur and calcarea should precede any, as it were, organopathic prescription for cancer, and such are the multiform, polychrestic powers of these two drugs that a subkatabolic lesion of such import can hardly be imagined where these twain should not be successively indicated. 1906, The Hahnemannian Monthly, volume 41, page 449:

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