ingraft

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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

It was the aim of Italian poets after Boccaccio to effect-481- a fusion between the classical and modern styles, and to ingraft the beauties of antique literature upon their own language.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

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

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