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Meanings of nostrum in English

Portuguese
panaceia
Catalan
panacea

Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists.

panaceia
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Examples for "panacea"
Examples for "panacea"
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But private companies are not necessarily the panacea to an organisation's problems.
The Guardian
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But the truth is that technology itself is not really a panacea.
The new yorker
3
True to his imagining, hard work proved a panacea to his soul.
Tomato rhapsody: a fable of love, lust and forbidden fruit
4
Springsteen is the panacea for all economic ills in Ireland right now.
The Irish Times
5
With diet, contradictions abound and there is no panacea to guarantee health.
The Irish Times
1
Unfortunately, I have no catholicon for every industrial ill-butthe political drug-stores are full of 'em.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12
2
I soon saw the Catholicon of Spain (Spanish gold) was the chief ingredient.
Memoirs of Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz — Volum...
3
In this "Catholicon," which, though undated, was printed before A.D. 1500, we read
Bacon is Shake-Speare / Together with a Reprint of Bacon's Promu...
4
According to Way, Promptorium Parrulorum, p. 506, note, the Catholicon Anglicanum has "A turfe grafte, turbarium."
The Earth as Modified by Human Action
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I care not much if I untwist my committee-man, and so give him the receipt of this grand Catholicon.
Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century
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Fungi are increasingly touted as a cure-all by health and wellness gurus.
The Guardian
2
DRAWBACKS Audits are not all the same, nor are they a cure-all.
Reuters
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Run down to Grand-daddy, Limpy-toes, and fetch a pinch of cure-all salve.
The Graymouse Family
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Never felt I so enamoured of that which seems to be the cure-all.
Jane Talbot
5
But even cellular computing enthusiasts admit they don't have a cure-all.
Wired
Usage of nostrum in English
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We may safely feel certain that the nostrum was not liquid oxygen.
The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 3 (of 4) / A Personal Guide to the ...
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Senator Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, denounced this proposition as a quack nostrum.
Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02
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Their new economic nostrum was the very toxin the Founders had warned against.
The 5000 year leap: a miracle that changed the world
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Still, the young native of Cologne delayed some time before using the nostrum.
Barbara Blomberg — Volume 02
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When I try any illustrious nostrum, I shall give the preference to this.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
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This is the true and only nostrum for that purpose.
Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches
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This French business, on the other hand, is a nostrum and a mere excrescence.
In the South Seas / Being an Account of Experiences and Observat...
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There is no nostrum, no receipt for taking it away.
The Silent Isle
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A taking label is as valuable to a party as it is to a nostrum.
Marse Henry (Volume 1) / An Autobiography
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The last dodgy nostrum I fell for was cryonics.
Futures 1
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Snivel here receives a nostrum from the lady's purse.
Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life
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We are not ventilating a nostrum, we are preaching a divine revelation, a divine revealer.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
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Was it to be treated as a domestic nostrum?
Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood
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No, I will not; for then I may sin again, and trust to the same nostrum.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
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Indeed, these horses seem to their owners not to be worth the price of a nostrum.
There's Pippins and Cheese to Come
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But it's practically a nostrum all by itself.
The Wise Man’s Fear
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Catalan
panacea
Nostrum through the time