stirpiculture
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- stirpicultural adjective
- stirpiculturist noun
Etymology
Origin of stirpiculture
1865–70, < Latin stirpi- (stem of stirps ) stock, stem + culture
Example Sentences
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Stirpiculture seemed to the Community's neighbors no better than turpitude.
From Time Magazine Archive
John Noyes's last sensational innovation, Stirpiculture, or scientific procreation, aroused greater hostility.
From Time Magazine Archive
And in the time to come, when the brain ceases to be the servant of the belly, the head the lackey of the heart, in that time stirpiculture, which is scientific perpetuation, will take the place of romantic love.
From Project Gutenberg
It is well, and it might have been better, but do not give over and talk of stirpiculture.
From Project Gutenberg
After the passing of a few generations, under the wide-spread reign of co-operative stirpiculture, with its hosts of mothers' clubs, suicide will soon become an utter impossibility.
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