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Ingraft   Listen
verb
Ingraft  v. t.  (past & past part. ingrafted; pres. part. ingrafting)  
1.
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."
2.
To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions; to graft; as, to ingraft a tree.






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"Ingraft" Quotes from Famous Books



... truth, virtue, God; not only do my powers extend vastly beyond all those, which I could have derived from the instruments and organs, with which nature has furnished me; but I can do what nature 'per se' cannot. I ingraft, I raise heavy bodies above the clouds, and guide my course over ocean and through air. I alone am lord of fire and light; other creatures are but their alms-folk, and of all the so called elements, water, earth, air, and all their compounds (to speak ...
— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge



Words linked to "Ingraft" :   engraft, graft, join, conjoin



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