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Meaning of polychrestic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Able to be used in various ways.

obsolete

Examples

“Next in order to these polychrestic medicines come the following […]”
“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.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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