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

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

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 The Great German Composers by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)

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