ingraft
Americanverb (used with object)
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It was the aim of Italian poets after Boccaccio to effect-481- a fusion between the classical and modern styles, and to ingraft the beauties of antique literature upon their own language.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
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 William Ellery Leonard
I ingraft, I raise heavy bodies above the clouds, and guide my course over ocean and through air.
From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Scot's inalienable prerogative of pedigree exercised an influence over him, though he appeared as a foreign ingraft upon his Scotch family tree.
From Robert Louis Stevenson by Evelyn Blantyre Simpson
In speaking of accents, let me say here I do not ask the young priest to commit the signal folly of attempting to ingraft an imported accent on his own native one.
From The Young Priest's Keepsake by Michael Phelan
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