ingraft

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“By ingrafting representation upon democracy,” as Condorcet’s friend Tom Paine put it, the people could exercise their power both directly, in local assemblies, and indirectly, by provisionally entrusting some of their powers to elected representatives.

From The Guardian

It is ingrafted into the line of the Honorian walls, and is best seen from the outside of the city.

From Project Gutenberg

The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; Ð called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.

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The Christian religion was ingrafted upon our racial life in the days of slavery.

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And what am I to do in order to satisfy the craving ingrafted in me for a personal and a common welfare?

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