stirps

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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

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

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

Si vero quod absit, regalis ex nostris nuptiis stirps qu� jure deinceps regnare possit non nascatur, hoc regnum civilibus atque intestinis se versabit tumultibus aut in exterorum dominationem atque potestatem veniet.

From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by Froude, James Anthony