Crossword clues for nostrum
nostrum
- New drink containing East German's secret potion
- Hypothetical solution to sum never extremely diabolical
- Hypothetical remedy for all ills
- Remedy in no way unusual
- Patent remedy
- Patent medicine, e.g
- Spurious remedy
- Snake oil, e.g
- Questionable remedy
- Quack dosage
- Quack cure-all
- Quack creation
- Purported remedy
- Patent medicine of highly questionable value
- Medicine show elixir
- Favourite remedy or scheme
- Favourite remedy
- Cure-all? No
- Patent medicine, e.g.
- Quack remedy
- Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases
- Once sought by the alchemists
- Patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable
- Quack medicine — run most (anag)
- Quack's prescription
- Panacea
- Snake oil, e.g.
- Remedy
- Cure? Doctor runs to source of medicine
- Cure backward child having tantrum after social worker's gone
- Special remedy for a fingerpicking style?
- Solution: only one string!
- No way booze is remedy against ills
- No way drink is medicine!
- No way alcoholic drink is a remedy against ills
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nostrum \Nos"trum\ (-tr[u^]m), n.; pl. Nostrums (-tr[u^]mz).
A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine.
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Any scheme or device proposed by a quack.
The incentives of agitators, the arts of impostors and the nostrums of quacks.
--Brougham. Any scheme asserted to solve a problem, but with no objective basis for belief in its effectiveness; esp., in politics, a scheme or proposal likely to prove popular with voters.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"quack medicine," c.1600, from Latin nostrum remedium "our remedy," presumably that prepared by the person offering it, from Latin nostrum, neuter of noster "our," from nos "we," from PIE *nos (see us).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A medicine or remedy in conventional use which has not been proven to have any desirable medical effects. 2 An ineffective but favorite remedy for a problem, usually involving political action.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Nostrum may refer to:
- Nostrum remedium is an ancient Latin term for trademarked patent medicine.
- Air Nostrum is a regional airline based in Valencia, Spain.
- Exultavit cor nostrum is a papal bull from Urban IV to the Mongol Ilkhanate leader Hulagu Khan in 1263-1264.
- Mare Nostrum (Latin for "our sea") was a Roman nickname for the Mediterranean Sea.
- Pascha Nostrum is a hymn used by Christians during Easter season.
- Nostrum Oil & Gas, an oil and gas exploration and production company
Usage examples of "nostrum".
The nostrums advertised extensively over the country as specifics for this disease, while they may, in some instances, prevent the attacks for a short time, irritate the stomach, impair digestion, lower vitality, and permanently injure the system, often rendering the disease incurable.
POSITIVE INJURY instead of benefit often results from the employment of some of the nostrums advertised for the cure of spermatorrhea, impotency and kindred affections.
So inventing by the light of inner consciousness alone, he worked up tiny doses of the grey ambergris into mutton fat, coloured it faintly pink with cochineal insects he caught on the prickly pear hedges, added a little crude borax as a preservative, and so produced a cosmetic that was no better and little worse than the thousand other nostrums of its kind in daily use elsewhere.
This nostrum, and the manner of administering it, struck me in so laughable a light that I could not keep my countenance.
None of those ridiculous old-wife nostrums of yours, signora, could have prevented the fomites and miasms of corruption from getting into the wounds.
Master Lully produced his bottle of nostrum, a clear thin liquid with a golden hue.
Tuam cum gratiarum actione usus fuerit per invocationem sanctissimi nominis Tui corporis sanitatem et animae tutelam Te auctore percipiat per Christum Dominum nostrum.
If he must dispense his balm of Gilead in nostrums and apothegms of dubious taste to restore to health a generation of unfledged profligates let his practice consist better with the doctrines that now engross him.
In writing about hospital-caused errors in medication, in surgery, in laboratory tests, and just in admitting patients, Blau offers a nostrum known to any hospital patient.
Tuam cum gratiarum actione usus fuerit per invocationem sanctissimi nominis Tui corporis sanitatem et animae tutelam Te auctore percipiat per Christum Dominum nostrum.
Equidem etiam curiam nostram, Hostiliam dico, non hanc novam, quae mihi minor esse videtur postquam est maior, solebam intuens, Scipionem, Catonem, Laelium, nostrum vero in primis avum cogitare.
Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum Filium Tuum: Qui Tecum vivit et regnat in unitate Spiritus Sancti Deus, per omnia saecula saeculorum.
Christum, Dominion nostrum, qui venturus est judicare vivos et mortuos et saeculum per ignem.
Pots and pans, scissors, handsaws, nostrums, a roll of calico for the ladies, plantations like your Quantness there were miles from anything, little worlds to themselves and he was the outside world, he was a real institution because his real stock in trade was news and gossip, welcomed with opened arms wherever he showed up with what they really hungered for.
If he must dispense his balm of Gilead in nostrums and apothegms of dubious taste to restore to health a generation of unfledged profligates let his practice consist better with the doctrines that now engross him.