stirps

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Hic in honore Dei requiescit stirps Clodovei, Patris bellica gens, bella salutis agens.

From Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 by Turner, Dawson

The idea of a distinct stirps or germ for each great class of animals and plants seems to me to destroy an essential feature of the hypothesis.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward

Si vero quod absit, regalis ex nostris nuptiis stirps qu� jure deinceps regnare possit non nascatur, hoc regnum civilibus atque intestinis se versabit tumultibus aut in exterorum dominationem atque potestatem veniet.

From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by Froude, James Anthony

I must not omit the inscription on the south front: "Omnipotens faxet, stirps Sunderlandia sedes Incolet has placide, et tueatur jura parentum, Lite vacans, donec fluctus formica marinos Ebibat et totum testudo perambulet orbem!"

From Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

A syllable in Latin may consist of from one to six letters, as a, ab, ars, Mars, stans, stirps.

From The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it by Lord, Frances Ellen