stirps

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They do not refuse the knowledge of other colonies of other stirps and origins, and they even combine in temporary alliance with them.

From April Hopes by Howells, William Dean

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

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

The stanzas of Michele Ferno of Milan conclude: Borgia stirps: bos: atque Ceres transcendit Olympo, Cantabunt nomen sæcula cuncta suum; which turned out to be a true prophecy.

From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Gregorovius, Ferdinand

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