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nostrum

[ nos-truhm ]

noun

  1. a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
  2. a pet scheme or remedy, especially for social or political ills; panacea:

    The party was pushing the nostrum of corporate tax reduction, as if that would undo decades of industrial job loss.

  3. a medicine made by the person who recommends it.
  4. a patent medicine.


nostrum

/ ˈɒٰə /

noun

  1. a patent or quack medicine
  2. a favourite remedy, as for political or social problems
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of nostrum1

First recorded in 1595–1605; from Latin: literally, “our, ours” (neuter singular of noster ), with a noun such as remedium “remedy, cure” being understood; referring to the seller's calling the drug “our” drug
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of nostrum1

C17: from Latin: our own (make), from noster our
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Example Sentences

He has taken Emerson’s nostrum about consistency being “the hobgoblin of little minds” to its acid-flashback extreme: no consistency, no mind to speak of, but one hell of a hobgoblin.

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“The FDA’s war on public health is about to end,” he wrote, decrying the agency’s “aggressive suppression” of such worthless anti-COVID nostrums as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.

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When asked for specifics about what she would do if elected, she often offers word salads and nostrums about bringing people together.

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But it gave their adversaries the opening they needed to question the severity of the outbreak or the policy recommendations themselves, and to promote useless nostrums.

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Marketers of economic nostrums such as cryptocurrency and gold investments flood the airwaves with come-ons, and they don’t win customers by proclaiming that sunny days lie ahead.

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