ingraft

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There may also, perhaps, be cases where teachers, whose schools are already in successful operation, may ingraft upon their own plans some things which are here proposed.

From The Teacher by Abbott, Jacob

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

They soon ingraft their own social and political system upon immense multitudes, and impose upon vast countries the dominion of that combination of facts and ideas—more or less co-ordinate—which we call a civilization.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

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

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