ingraft

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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

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

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 Simpson, Evelyn Blantyre

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

There were others of note seated on the platform, who would gladly ingraft upon English institutions all that is purely republican in the institutions of America.

From My Bondage and My Freedom by Douglass, Frederick