stirps

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stirps

(stûrps)

n. pl. stir·pes (stûr′pēz)

1. A line of descendants of common ancestry; stock.

2. Law A person from whom a family is descended.

[Latin, stem, lineage.]

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stirps

(stɜːps)

n, pl stirpes (ˈstɜːpiːz)

1. (Heraldry) genealogy a line of descendants from an ancestor; stock or strain

2. (Botany) botany a race or variety, esp one in which the characters are maintained by cultivation

[C17: from Latin: root, family origin]

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stirps

(stɜrps)

n., pl. stir•pes (ˈstɜr piz)

1. a stock; family or branch of a family; line of descent.

2. Law. a person from whom a family is descended.

[1675–85; < Latin: rootstock, trunk]

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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.

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Hill, "Scyld Scefing and the 'Stirps Regia': Pagan Myth and Christian Kingship in Beowulf," in Magister Regis: Studies in Honor of R.

Snared by the Beasts of Battle: Fear as Hermeneutic Guide in the Old English Exodus

"Mary's Nativity, Fulbert of Chartres, and the Stirps Jesse: Liturgical Innovation circa 1000 and Its Afterlife." Speculum 75 (2000), 389-434.

ALCUNE NOTE SUL SIMBOLISMO TIPOLOGICO MARIANO NEGLI INNI MEDIEVALI

The fourteenth-century scribe was also not without fault in the transcription of the music, as may be argued in the case of the antiphon Stirps regalis for Saint Edith on folio 105v (fig.

Re-membering the Wilton processional

Tambien los especialistas de historia politica eran sensibles a lo que podia aportar mi tesis respecto a la santidad de los reyes y de la fortuna del tema de la beata stirps respecto a ciertas dinastias como los Angevinos de Napoles y de Hungria a partir del siglo XIV.

Conversacion en Paris con Andre Vauchez

In the end, they chose "stock of Abraham" (stirps Abrahae); in German, this was Stature Abrahams ("tribe of Abraham"), the phrase used by Thieme in his Evanston theses.

What Nostra aetate inaugurated: a conversion to the "providential mystery of otherness"

nec stirps prima fui; genitor sum fratre creatus, qui tribus ante quarter mensibus ortus erat.