nostra

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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Definition of nostra

1 sense · 1 part of speech

noun

  1. (form-of, plural)plural of nostrum
    “…beg our clerical friends to remember that quack medicines are of two kinds,… …with his poisonous nostra in the form of doctrines, upon those of whose…”
    “On the other hand, alchemists had arisen with their pertinacious search for the philosopher’s stone, which was to convert all metals into gold, and cure all diseases. In this search they gave their nostra extensive trial on sick and well.”
    “Much less shall we enter into a detail of the many nostra and patent medicines that have been, and still are, trumpeted round as sure and never-failing…”
    “…immunotherapy, Isselsism, thermotherapy, and all other nostra — are used faut de mieux, when the three bulwarks of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy have failed, or are prima facie useless.”

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