ingraft
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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He says that he prefers a monarchy to other governments, because you can better ingraft any description of republic on a monarchy than anything of monarchy upon the republican forms.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
The attempt to ingraft turkish trowsers on the Veronese costume, proved too absurd to warrant the continuance of such a representation, and was abandoned after the night of its introduction.
From Physiology of The Opera by Swaby, John H.
It was before remarked, that the theory of progressive development arose partly from an attempt to ingraft the doctrines of the transmutationists upon one of the most popular generalizations in geology.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
Good sooth—yet fire is not ingraft in wood, But many are the seeds of heat, and when Rubbing together they together flow, They start the conflagrations in the forests.
From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery
Imps: shoots, branches; from Anglo-Saxon, "impian," German, "impfen," to implant, ingraft.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing
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