nostrify

present singular third person nostrifies · participle present nostrifying · participle past nostrified · past nostrified

1. To nostrificate; to grant recognition to a degree from a foreign university.

   He wanted to lecture on medicine and for that reason planned to nostrify his Paduan doctorate.

   1997, “The Polish Review”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 42, page 81

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   The status of academic school is conferred on any institution by a special law, and only academic schools are authorized to confer degrees and nostrify degrees granted Polish citizens abroad.

   1936, Statistics of Land-grant Colleges and Universities, page 17

2. To adopt, accept, or include as part of one's own culture.

   (We 'nostrify' a certain opinion, accept it etc.) This means that the identity of the subject becomes enlarged.

   2000, “Indian journal of Secularism”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 5, page 12

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   New Orleans palates nostrify incoming cuisines thanks to a pervasive eating will bred into generations of enthusiastic eaters.

   2003, Berndt Ostendorf, “Eating New Orleans Style”, in Christa Grewe-Volpp, Werner Reinhart, editors, Erlesenes Essen, page 99

   Paul shows the Christian believers their place in the divine faith-righteousness, but does not "nostrify" Abraham in Christian terms.

   2007, Benjamin Schliesser, Abraham's Faith in Romans 4, footnote 164, page 413