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Definition of All-purpose
1. Adjective. Not limited in use or function.
Definition of All-purpose
1. Adjective. for all purposes; general-purpose ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of All-purpose
Literary usage of All-purpose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Composition of Foods: Baked Products: Raw, Processed, Prepared (1994)
"32 20022 yellow cornmeal 32.51 20081 all-purpose flour 9. ... 51 20081 all-purpose
flour 9. 74 01123 eggs 7.85 04044 vegetable oil 4. 27 19335 sugar 3. ..."
2. Germany in Travail by Otto Manthey-Zorn (1922)
"The Romanticism of the early nineteenth century dogmatically and painstakingly
avoided all purpose in art, but it did not produce a single drama that ..."
3. Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis by Central Conference of American Rabbis (1912)
"The life-that-seems, being merely a mortal dream, is naturally beneath all purpose;
whereas the real life, being purely spirit, and as such, part and parcel ..."
4. Ethics of Literature by John A. Kersey (1894)
"The Tragedy Sixty Years in Incubation—The Philosophy Takes all Purpose Out of
Religion—Nothing can be Thought as Self-Limited—Duality of Man's Nature, ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1865)
"Fair, for beet machine for all purpose«, and beat machine work. Greenfield (O-)
Union Fair, for belt family machine, and best machine woik Clinton Co,. ..."
6. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1892)
"Mr. Bordwell i» an all-purpose man, and the farmers here present all know what
I mea» by an " all-purpose man." You can put him in any place you plea» upon ..."
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