stirps

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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

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

A syllable in Latin may consist of from one to six letters, as a, ab, ars, Mars, stans, stirps.

From The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it by Lord, Frances Ellen

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

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