polychresticとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

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.