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The breeding of special stocks or races.

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Usage examples (11)
  • "In the course of what we call stirpiculture," said Noyes, "Charles, as you know, is in the situation of one who is by and by to become a father.
  • Here's where it gets a little scary … eugenics, then known as stirpiculture, was introduced in 1869.
  • It is well, and it might have been better, but do not give over and talk of stirpiculture.
  • A plea for the unborn: An argument that children could, and therefore should, be born with a sound mind in a sound body, and that man may become perfect by means of selection...
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