Verb (used with object) : to engraft a peach on a plum.    From Dictionary.com. 

Even these, should one engraft them, or transplant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Georgics] Reference

His lore was engraft, something foreign that grew in him.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850] Reference

For his lore was engraft, something foreign that grew in him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

We have rather to take our native stock as we find it, and engraft upon it a slip from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference

On this basis, now and then more marked, definite psychotic manifestations engraft themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference

Let us not stop in cold admiration, but reflect how we may engraft similar virtues upon our own souls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Character] Reference

Human bone marrow CD34 - cells engraft in vivo and undergo multilineage expression including giving rise to CD34+ cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fetal Stem Cell Transplantation, In Utero Stemm Cell Publications] Reference

Ethelred sought to "engraft the branch of Cerdic upon the stem of Rollo," in the hope of increasing the power of England.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference

A doctrine so inaugurated and developed has endeavored to engraft itself by partisan alliance upon the Democratic party of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

But the cases on which the district court relied do not engraft a rigid procedural/substantive distinction onto Section 2(b)(2).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

He should not commit the signal folly of attempting to engraft an imported accent on his own; he should speak as an Irishman, but as an educated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference

DANIEL SAMMONS, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: I think that we engraft on kids of today levels of innocence that they do not possess, or lack of sophistication.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2005] Reference

The most imaginative of men, yet writing with the precision of a mathematician, he endeavored to engraft a purely philosophical Ethics on the popular.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Scholar] Reference

Stripped of its intellectual facade the announcement is nothing but a transparent effort to engraft religious dogma onto the classroom examination of scientific theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panda's Thumb: November 2005 Archives] Reference

When free from actual psychotic manifestations (which very easily engraft themselves upon this degenerative soil) these individuals do not belong in a hospital for the insane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Forensic Psychiatry] Reference

Whether, therefore, it may not be fatal to engraft trade on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Querist] Reference

For his lore was engraft, something foreign that grew in him, 210.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference

I will endeavour to engraft the meaning of these lines upon a rude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley — Volume 1] Reference

Gnostics, and which arose from the attempt to engraft Orientalism upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference

And if one plant them, or make layers, or engraft them, they must be rooted out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebrew Literature] Reference

The tragedians had only, therefore, to engraft one species of poetry on another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature] Reference

We have to engraft on despotism those blessings which are the natural fruits of liberty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4] Reference

We were not sent here to engraft new principles into our foreign policy, and I will not consent to enter upon that business.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861] Reference

Zeng said this is the first time iPSC-derived cells have been shown to engraft and ameliorate behavioral deficits in animals with PD.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fight Aging!] Reference

It will aim to engraft on the stock that is approved by the collective wisdom of the past, all such scions of modern origin as mark a real progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Dartmouth College] Reference

He had had an interview with Agnes Darling, whose hopes were on the ebb; and once more had tried to engraft his own bright, sanguine nature on hers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel] Reference

It was the dastardly ending of the first effort, nobly conceived, and supported through five years, to engraft the English race in the soil of America.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775] Reference

The interpreter will placidly proceed to translate a long string of sentences, just fallen from a speaker's lips, to engraft which upon our memory would be.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians] Reference

The people seemed almost crazed that a Tuskegee graduate should be planning to engraft the Tuskegee Idea in that section -- and this, too, in spite of Hampton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements] Reference

His ethical objections to the rule of Huerta in Mexico, his attempt to engraft democratic principles there, and the anarchy that came of it were matters of history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inside Story of the Peace Conference] Reference

The various stimuli of discipline are to enforce the higher though weaker insights which the child has already unfolded, rather than to engraft entirely unintuited good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference

There may also perhaps be cases, where teachers, whose schools are already in successful operation, may engraft, upon their own plans, some things which are here proposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young] Reference

They would as soon as possible establish a system of collegiate education, and there was a predisposition to engraft upon the College the well-known and respectable Medical.    From Wordnik.com.  [McGill and its Story, 1821-1921] Reference

If we could have the latter in the first place -- difficulties, hard-ships, hard labor, and adversity -- and upon these engraft the former, I should like it exceedingly well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Woman's Guide] Reference