panchrestonn.

Brit.

/panˈkriːst(ə)n/, U.S.

/ˌpænˈkrist(ə)n/

Inflections: Plural panchrestons, panchresta.

Forms: 1600s panchrestum, 1600s pancreston, 1600s 1900s– panchreston, 1700s panchrestos (irregular), 1700s panchrestus (irregular).

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek πάγχρηστον.

Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek πάγχρηστον universal remedy, use as noun of neuter singular of ancient Greek πάγχρηστος good for everything < παν- pan- comb. form + χρηστός useful (see chrestomathy n.). Compare classical Latin panchrēstos, panchrēstus good for everything, panchrēstum medicāmentum universal remedy (Cicero and Pliny). Compare also Italian pancresto (1598 in Florio).

†1. A panacea, a universal medicine. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > universal medicine

mithridatum1526

mithridate1528

mithridaticon?1544

panacea1548

mithridatium1559

heal-all1577

catholicon1611

panchreston1623

allheal1630

panpharmacon1649

universal1656

diacatholicon1665

panacaeon1684

panacya1690

panchrest1728

universality1756

cure-all1870

1623 E. Misselden Circle of Commerce 91 There are certaine Empericks or Quacksaluers in the world, that use a Pill they call Panchreston, that is, a medecine for euery malady, a salue for euery sore.

1640 C. Harvey Bible in Synagogue xiv. iii The true Panchreston 'tis for every sore.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 176 Empiricks..that with some Panchrestum, Catholike Medicines, undertake every thing.

1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Panchresta, Medicines good against all, or many Diseases. [So in Bailey, etc.]

2. An explanation or theory which can be made to fit all cases, being used in such a variety of ways as to become meaningless.

ΚΠ

1956 G. Hardin in Sci. Monthly Mar. 113/1 As we borrow from the Greek to call a ‘cure-all’ a panacea, so let us christen an ‘explain-all’ a panchreston.

1963 T. S. Szasz Law, Liberty & Psychiatry 34 Panchrestons have played, and continue to play, an enormous role in psychiatry and psychoanalysis.

1994 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 81 1518/2 The term ‘pollination efficiency’ has already become a panchreston.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	panchreston
释义	panchrestonn. Brit. /panˈkriːst(ə)n/, U.S. /ˌpænˈkrist(ə)n/ Inflections: Plural panchrestons, panchresta. Forms: 1600s panchrestum, 1600s pancreston, 1600s 1900s– panchreston, 1700s panchrestos (irregular), 1700s panchrestus (irregular). Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek πάγχρηστον. Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek πάγχρηστον universal remedy, use as noun of neuter singular of ancient Greek πάγχρηστος good for everything < παν- pan- comb. form + χρηστός useful (see chrestomathy n.). Compare classical Latin panchrēstos, panchrēstus good for everything, panchrēstum medicāmentum universal remedy (Cicero and Pliny). Compare also Italian pancresto (1598 in Florio). †1. A panacea, a universal medicine. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > universal medicine mithridatum1526 mithridate1528 mithridaticon?1544 panacea1548 mithridatium1559 heal-all1577 catholicon1611 panchreston1623 allheal1630 panpharmacon1649 universal1656 diacatholicon1665 panacaeon1684 panacya1690 panchrest1728 universality1756 cure-all1870 1623 E. Misselden Circle of Commerce 91 There are certaine Empericks or Quacksaluers in the world, that use a Pill they call Panchreston, that is, a medecine for euery malady, a salue for euery sore. 1640 C. Harvey Bible in Synagogue xiv. iii The true Panchreston 'tis for every sore. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 176 Empiricks..that with some Panchrestum, Catholike Medicines, undertake every thing. 1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Panchresta, Medicines good against all, or many Diseases. [So in Bailey, etc.] 2. An explanation or theory which can be made to fit all cases, being used in such a variety of ways as to become meaningless. ΚΠ 1956 G. Hardin in Sci. Monthly Mar. 113/1 As we borrow from the Greek to call a ‘cure-all’ a panacea, so let us christen an ‘explain-all’ a panchreston. 1963 T. S. Szasz Law, Liberty & Psychiatry 34 Panchrestons have played, and continue to play, an enormous role in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. 1994 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 81 1518/2 The term ‘pollination efficiency’ has already become a panchreston. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1623
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