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[ UK /nˈɒstɹəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable
  2. hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists

How To Use nostrum In A Sentence

  • Non argumenta, non verisimilitudines quaerimus, quibus judicium nostrum incumbat; sed ut rei extra aestimandi aleam positae, judicium ingeniumque nostrum subjicimus ... Pneumatologia
  • The search for a replacement cause brought with it shallow opportunism, the honing of public relations skills and a ragbag of nostrums, some of them purloined from its political opponents.
  • May I take this opportunity to wish all NLM readers a very happy and blessed Easter, in the words of the EF Martyrology: Hac die, quam fecit Dominus, Solemnitas solemnitatum, et Pascha nostrum: Resurrectio Salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi secundum carnem. Papal Easter Day Mass and Urbi et Orbi Blessing
  • Est in unoquoque nostrum seminarium aliquod stultitiae, quod si quando excitetur, in infinitum facile excrescit. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Munus nostrum ornato verbis, et istum aemulum, quoad poteris, ab ea pellito. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Pepper, though, was of infinitely more moment to the ancients than to be merely a topping, nostrum, or cachou. Excerpt: Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
  • Shrunken and mean the spirit fails Like old snow falling from the crags And priest and pedagog compete With nostrums for the age that ails, The Eye of Zeitoon
  • It was said to be a nostrum for "haemorrhage, dysentery, diarrohea, poisoning, plague, and nosebleeds. Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3
  • Not surprisingly Roy King pays particular attention to the considerations which affect the successful negotiation of an acceptable research role and suggests a number of nostrums for the conduct of research in prisons.
  • Ferre non possunt ut illorum Messias communis servator sit, nostrum gaudium, &c. Messias vel decem decies crucifixuri essent, ipsumque Deum si id fieri posset, una cum angelis et creaturis omnibus, nec absterretur ab hoc facto et si mille interna subeunda forent. Anatomy of Melancholy
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