polychrestic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From polychrest + -ic.
Adjective
[edit]polychrestic (comparative more polychrestic, superlative most polychrestic)
- (obsolete, homeopathy) Able to be used in various ways.
- 1862, Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, Hull's Jahr: A New Manual of Homœopathic Practice, page 377:
- Next in order to these polychrestic medicines come the following […]
- 1906, The Hahnemannian Monthly, volume 41, page 449:
- 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.