stirps
Example Sentences
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He was a Jew and circumcised; for they have some few stirps of Jews yet remaining among them, whom they leave to their own religion.
From Ideal Commonwealths by More, Thomas, Sir, Saint
He was a Jew and circumcised: for they have some few stirps of Jews yet remaining among them, whom they leave to their own religion.
From New Atlantis by Bacon, Francis
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
