"polychrestic" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "polychrest",
        "3": "ic"
      },
      "expansion": "polychrest + -ic",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "polychrest + -ic",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more polychrestic",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most polychrestic",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "polychrestic (comparative more polychrestic, superlative most polychrestic)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ic",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Homeopathy",
          "orig": "en:Homeopathy",
          "parents": [
            "Alternative medicine",
            "Medicine",
            "Pseudoscience",
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1862, Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, Hull's Jahr: A New Manual of Homœopathic Practice, page 377",
          "text": "Next in order to these polychrestic medicines come the following […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, The Hahnemannian Monthly, volume 41, page 449",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Able to be used in various ways."
      ],
      "id": "en-polychrestic-en-adj-N6USM5d1",
      "links": [
        [
          "homeopathy",
          "homeopathy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, homeopathy) Able to be used in various ways."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "polychrest"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "homeopathy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "polychrestic"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "polychrest",
        "3": "ic"
      },
      "expansion": "polychrest + -ic",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "polychrest + -ic",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more polychrestic",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most polychrestic",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "polychrestic (comparative more polychrestic, superlative most polychrestic)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "polychrest"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ic",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Homeopathy"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1862, Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, Hull's Jahr: A New Manual of Homœopathic Practice, page 377",
          "text": "Next in order to these polychrestic medicines come the following […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, The Hahnemannian Monthly, volume 41, page 449",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Able to be used in various ways."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "homeopathy",
          "homeopathy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, homeopathy) Able to be used in various ways."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "homeopathy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "polychrestic"
}