polychrestic

English

Etymology

polychrest +‎ -ic

Adjective

polychrestic (comparative more polychrestic, superlative most polychrestic)

  1. (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.
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