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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

... species, and those three fundamental laws of nature as antient as society: So that taking advantage of the antiquity, and obscure origin of these laws, they first deny them to be artificial and voluntary inventions of men, and then seek to ingraft on them those other duties, which are more plainly artificial. But being once undeceived in this particular, and having found that natural, as well as civil justice, derives its origin from human conventions, we shall quickly perceive, how fruitless it is to resolve ...

— A Treatise of Human Nature • David Hume

... my mind. He is a presumptuous and a superficial writer. But he has one observation, which, in my opinion, is not without depth and solidity. 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. I think him perfectly in the right. The fact is so historically; and it agrees ...

— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke