ingraft

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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

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

His great work on earth is to exemplify, and to illustrate, and to ingraft those principles upon the living and practical understandings of all men within the reach of his influence.

From My Bondage and My Freedom by Douglass, Frederick

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

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

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