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

But for democracies, they need it not; and they are commonly more quiet, and less subject to sedition, than where there are stirps of nobles.

From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis

These are called “individualizing characteristics,” “notae individuantes,” the familiar scholastic list of them being “forma, figura, locus, tempus, stirps, patria, nomen,” with manifest reference to the individual “man”.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

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

But we have only to suppose a distinct stirps for each of the classes, and that the developments took place along parallel lines, in order to harmonize the facts with the hypothesis.

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