polychrestic
polychrestic adjective: able to be used in various ways.
Adjective
polychrestic (comparative more polychrestic, superlative most polychrestic)
- 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...1906, The Hahnemannian Monthly, volume 41, page 449
Forms of polychrestic
| comparative | more polychrestic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most polychrestic |
Origin of polychrestic
From polychrest + -ic.
Questions about polychrestic
- What does polychrestic mean?
- Polychrestic means able to be used in various ways.
- What part of speech is polychrestic?
- Polychrestic is an adjective.
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