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

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

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

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

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