stirps

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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

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

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

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

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