ingraft
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In speaking of accents, let me say here I do not ask the young priest to commit the signal folly of attempting to ingraft an imported accent on his own native one.
From The Young Priest's Keepsake by Michael Phelan
It was before remarked, that the theory of progressive development arose partly from an attempt to ingraft the doctrines of the transmutationists upon one of the most popular generalizations in geology.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
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 John Sherman
The Scot's inalienable prerogative of pedigree exercised an influence over him, though he appeared as a foreign ingraft upon his Scotch family tree.
From Robert Louis Stevenson by Evelyn Blantyre Simpson
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.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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