ingraft
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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 Frederick Douglass
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 Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke
And 'tis great pitty, that the Noble Moore Should hazard such a Place, as his owne Second With one of an ingraft Infirmitie, It were an honest Action, to say so To the Moore Iago.
From Othello by William Shakespeare
The attempt to ingraft turkish trowsers on the Veronese costume, proved too absurd to warrant the continuance of such a representation, and was abandoned after the night of its introduction.
From Physiology of The Opera by John H. Swaby
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 Sir Charles Lyell
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