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English
Etymology
From polychrest + -ic.
Adjective
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.