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Ingraft v. t. (past & past part. ingrafted; pres. part. ingrafting)

To insert, as a scion of one tree, shrub, or plant in another for propagation; as, to ingraft a peach scion on a plum tree; (figuratively), To insert or introduce in such a way as to make a part of something. "This fellow would ingraft a foreign name Upon our stock." "A custom... ingrafted into the monarchy of Rome."

To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions; to graft; as, to ingraft a tree.

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Etymology of 'Ingraft'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ingraft" Quotes from Famous Books

... lance is shivered in the first encounter. A mere tendency-novel is in itself a monster. A picture of the age must be, in the highest acceptation of the word, a poem. It must not represent real persons or places—it must create such. It must not ingraft itself upon the passing and the accidental, but be pervaded by a poetic intuition of the real. He that attempts it must look with a poet's eye at the real and enduring elements in the confusing contradictions of the time, and ...

— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag

... of York, both from the plain reason of the case, and from the late popular government of Edward IV., had universally obtained the preference in the sentiments of the people; and Henry might ingraft his claim on the rights of that family, by his intended marriage with the princess Elizabeth, the heir of it; a marriage which he had solemnly promised to celebrate, and to the expectation of which he had chiefly owed all his past successes. But many reasons ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. - From Henry VII. to Mary • David Hume

Words linked to "Ingraft" : join, graft