ingraft

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Either of these plans I could readily support; but they have met and will meet with such opposition that we cannot hope to carry them or ingraft them in this bill without defeating it.

From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by Sherman, John

There may also, perhaps, be cases where teachers, whose schools are already in successful operation, may ingraft upon their own plans some things which are here proposed.

From The Teacher by Abbott, Jacob

Imps: shoots, branches; from Anglo-Saxon, "impian," German, "impfen," to implant, ingraft.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

I ingraft, I raise heavy bodies above the clouds, and guide my course over ocean and through air.

From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

And 'tis great pitty, that the Noble Moore Should hazard such a Place, as his owne Second With one of an ingraft Infirmitie, It were an honest Action, to say so To the Moore    Iago.

From Othello by Shakespeare, William