stirps

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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 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 Hitchcock, Edward

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

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 Trench, Richard Chenevix

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