Nostrum Define Nostrum at Dictionary.com: "nos·trum
–noun
1. a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine.
2. a scheme, theory, device, etc., esp. one to remedy social or political ills; panacea.
3. a medicine made by the person who recommends it.
4. a patent medicine.
Origin:
1595–1605; < L nostrum our, ours (neut. sing. of noster ); referring to the seller's calling the drug “our” drug Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2011.
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010
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engram
EN-gram
noun
1. The supposed physical basis of an individual memory in the brain.
2. A presumed encoding in neural tissue that provides a physical basis for the persistence of memory; a memory trace.
Word of the Day Dictionary.com: "You shut it away, but it has left a mark-an engram , like an inscription on your brain.
-- David Bilsborough, A Fire in the North"
EN-gram
noun
1. The supposed physical basis of an individual memory in the brain.
2. A presumed encoding in neural tissue that provides a physical basis for the persistence of memory; a memory trace.
Word of the Day Dictionary.com: "You shut it away, but it has left a mark-an engram , like an inscription on your brain.
-- David Bilsborough, A Fire in the North"
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
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Word of the Day Dictionary.com:
"palingenesis
\ pal-in-JEN-uh-sis \ , noun;
1. Rebirth; regeneration. 2. In biology, embryonic development that reproduces the ancestral features of the species. 3. Baptism in the Christian faith. 4. The doctrine of transmigration of souls. Read the full entry See synonyms Comment on today's word Suggest tomorrow's word
Quotes:
His acquaintance with the family dated from their social palingenesis , when, after obscure prosperity in a southern suburb, they fluttered to the northern heights, and were observed of the paragraphists.
-- George Gissing, The Whirlpool
A perfect palingenesis was wrought by the restorer of the Persian empire, which pretty nearly re- occupied (and gloried in re-occupying) the very area that had once composed the empire of Cyrus.
-- Thomas de Quincey, The Caesars
Origin:
Palingenesis is the combination of two Greek roots: palin , 'again,' and genesis , 'source.'"
"palingenesis
\ pal-in-JEN-uh-sis \ , noun;
1. Rebirth; regeneration. 2. In biology, embryonic development that reproduces the ancestral features of the species. 3. Baptism in the Christian faith. 4. The doctrine of transmigration of souls. Read the full entry See synonyms Comment on today's word Suggest tomorrow's word
Quotes:
His acquaintance with the family dated from their social palingenesis , when, after obscure prosperity in a southern suburb, they fluttered to the northern heights, and were observed of the paragraphists.
-- George Gissing, The Whirlpool
A perfect palingenesis was wrought by the restorer of the Persian empire, which pretty nearly re- occupied (and gloried in re-occupying) the very area that had once composed the empire of Cyrus.
-- Thomas de Quincey, The Caesars
Origin:
Palingenesis is the combination of two Greek roots: palin , 'again,' and genesis , 'source.'"
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