stirps
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And here we may bring in the 'stock'-dove, as being the 'stock' or stirps of the domestic kinds.
From On the Study of Words by Richard Chenevix Trench
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 Edward Hitchcock
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 Edward Hitchcock
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 Peter Coffey
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 Sir Saint Thomas More
But the division per stirpes was not maintained throughout.
From On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay by Hugh E. (Hugh Exton) Seebohm
I can't crowd out others as desirable as he for the sake of carrying all of his stirpes.
From The Second Deluge by Garrett Putman Serviss
These became modified into two stirpes: A, that of the worms; and B, that of the sponges.
From Critiques and Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley
Indeed we need not care whether the division per stirpes or per capita, our share is not the less in either case.
From Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms by Brander Matthews
