ingraft
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Either of these plans I could readily support; but they have met and will meet with such opposition that we cannot hope to carry them or ingraft them in this bill without defeating it.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman
Imps: shoots, branches; from Anglo-Saxon, "impian," German, "impfen," to implant, ingraft.
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
I ingraft, I raise heavy bodies above the clouds, and guide my course over ocean and through air.
From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 Evelyn Blantyre Simpson
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 John Addington Symonds
