Verb (used with object) : to engraft a peach on a plum. From Dictionary.com.
I take my stand here, that it is necessary to ingraft into that enduring instrument called the. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
They left the suppression of slavery to the States where it existed, but there was no intention to ingraft the idea of property in man in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy] Reference
Wherefore according as acts of virtue act causally or dispositively toward their generation and preservation, obedience is said to ingraft and protect all virtues. From Wordnik.com. [The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas] Reference
Wherefore according as acts of virtue act causally or dispositively towards their generation and preservation, obedience is said to ingraft and protect all virtues. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
"Anecdotes" and of "Polymetis," affords a curious picture of the eagerness evinced by James and his wife, during the infancy of their son, to ingraft his infant image on the memory, and affections of the. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
How do you ingraft the senses, lighten the eyes, implant the mind?. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus] Reference
There were others of note seated on the platform, who would gladly ingraft upon. From Wordnik.com. [My Bondage and My Freedom] Reference
Comprehensible. ingraft v. To set or implant deeply and firmly. intemperance n. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Let us see what these are15 in order that we may try to ingraft them into16 our own natures. From Wordnik.com. ["The Eagle Doesn't Catch Flies," Class Composition of Thomas W. Mason, [1856]] Reference
I ingraft, I raise heavy bodies above the clouds, and guide my course over ocean and through air. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Remains, Volume 1] Reference
Let us ingraft ourselves among the saints; by being often among the spices, we come to smell of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11] Reference
It must not ingraft itself upon the passing and the accidental, but be pervaded by a poetic intuition of the real. From Wordnik.com. [Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag] Reference
But here, washing my hands of them, I re-plunge into the stream of my history, into which I may very properly ingraft a terrible sally of. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Hill, Part IX (second letter)] Reference
Two other attempts to ingraft new and vital power on the rigid and trivial sentimentality of the Italian forms of opera were those of Rossini and Weber. From Wordnik.com. [The Great German Composers]
His great work on earth is to exemplify, and to illustrate, and to ingraft those principles upon the living and practical understandings of all men within the reach of his influence. From Wordnik.com. [My Bondage and My Freedom] Reference
Page 460 great work on earth is to exemplify, and to illustrate, and to ingraft those principles upon the living and practical understandings of all men within the reach of his influence. From Wordnik.com. [My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I.--Life as a Slave. Part II.--Life as a Freeman] Reference
He was specially interested now in framing a code of laws for the government of the young men, and tried, unsuccessfully as it proved, to ingraft upon this code some of his own peculiar political doctrines. From Wordnik.com. [Students of the University of Virginia] Reference
454. imps: repairs a wing by inserting feathers; ` impen 'or ` ympen', in O. E., means to ingraft. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference
Ajax is the third from Jove. seek advantage from my line, lies) it were mht'd with thine; in, Achilles 'arms I claim; rould ingraft a foreign name. From Wordnik.com. [Ovid's Metamorphoses, tr. by dr. Garth, and others] Reference
With one of an ingraft infirmity. From Wordnik.com. [Act II. Scene III. Othello, the Moor of Venice] Reference
With one of an ingraft infirmity. From Wordnik.com. [Othello] Reference
With one of an ingraft infirmity. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character] Reference
As he takes from you, I ingraft you new. From Wordnik.com. [Sonnets (1609 Edition)] Reference
When on wild nature we ingraft our skill. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
Good, or not good, ingraft; my merit those. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost] Reference
Good or not good, ingraft; my merit those35. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost: The Eleventh Book] Reference
Good sooth -- yet fire is not ingraft in wood. From Wordnik.com. [On the Nature of Things] Reference
Whether the bafy birds ingraft it there. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or, Beauties of British Poetry] Reference
35: Good or not good ingraft, my Merit those. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise Lost (1667)] Reference
1255: With one of an ingraft Infirmitie. From Wordnik.com. [Othello (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference
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