ingraft

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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 Lyell, Charles, Sir

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 Burke, Edmund

Good sooth—yet fire is not ingraft in wood, But many are the seeds of heat, and when Rubbing together they together flow, They start the conflagrations in the forests.

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

It must not ingraft itself upon the passing and the accidental, but be pervaded by a poetic intuition of the real.

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav

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