单词 | stirps |
释义 | stirpsn. 1. Law. A branch of a family; the person who with his descendants forms a branch of a family. Chiefly in Latin phrase per stirpes: see per stirpes adv.; also in stirpes. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > stock, race, or family > [noun] > branch brancha1400 stem1610 stirps1681 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > by succession [phrase] > types of succession to property in stirpes1681 per capita1682 per stirpes1682 1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. xxvi. iv. 84 They would not succeed in capita, the whole Successors getting Equal Share, but in stirpes. a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) II. iii. viii. §12. 547 Succession in stirpes, or by the stock, makes the partition..according to the number of the stocks or stirpes from whom these heirs derive right. 1771 Encycl. Brit. II. 937/2 The share belonging to their ascendent or stirps, whom they represent. 1862 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 3) App. iii. 430 His brothers succeed to the exclusion of his issue female, and each brother becomes a stirps. 2. Zoology. Used variously (often vaguely) as a term of classification: a family, subfamily, group, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > taxonomy > taxon > [noun] > tribe, sub-tribe, or sub-family tribe1640 subfamily1805 stirps1863 1863 T. H. Huxley Evid. Man's Place Nature ii. 103 The..practically infinite divergence of the human from the Simian stirps. 3. Botany. (See quot. 1866.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > variety or species > [noun] > types of stroller1723 natural order1785 subvariety1785 line1805 alliance1835 aggregate1859 stirps1866 segregate1871 cultigen1918 agamospecies1929 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1101/1 Stirps, a race or permanent variety: as the Red Cabbage. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1681 |
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