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What (who) is Nostrum - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Nostrum (disambiguation)
nostrum
n.
Quack medicine, patent medicine, arcanum.
nostrum
['n?str?m]
¦ noun
1. an ineffective medicine prepared by an unqualified person.
2. a favourite method for bringing about social or political reform.
Origin
C17: from L., used in the sense '(something) of our own making', neut. of noster 'our'.
nostrum
(nostrums)
1.
You can refer to ideas or theories about how something should be done as nostrums, especially when you think they are old-fashioned or wrong in some way. (FORMAL)
...yesterday's failed socialist nostrums.
N-COUNT: usu pl, oft N of n
2.
If you refer to a medicine as a nostrum, you mean that it is not effective or has not been tested in a proper scientific way.
...pills, tablets, and other nostrums claiming to be magic potions.
N-COUNT
Wikipedia
Nostrum
Nostrum may refer to:
- Nostrum remedium, a Latin term for trademarked patent medicine.
- Air Nostrum, a regional airline based in Spain.
- Exultavit cor nostrum, a 13th Century papal bull.
- Mare Nostrum, a Latin nickname for the Mediterranean sea.
- Pascha Nostrum, an Easter hymn.
- Nostrum Oil & Gas, an oil and gas exploration and production company.
Examples of use of Nostrum
1. The new European nostrum, the nostrum of our age, is all about union and the dissolution of borders.
2. Following the nostrum that you should invest in what you yourself know about, I plunged in.
3. The classic nostrum for the success of Western imperialism’s occupation of conquered peoples and territories.
4. The fashionable City nostrum that you can have a single market without any social dimension is simply delusion.
5. F Scott Fitzgerald‘s nostrum that there are no second acts in American lives will certainly be put to the test if Sen Kerry runs again.