ingraft

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ingraft (third-person singular simple present ingrafts, present participle ingrafting, simple past and past participle ingrafted)

  1. Alternative spelling of engraft
    • 1852, James Fenimore Cooper, Precaution‎:
      "Why, everything about the colonel seems so seated, so ingrafted in his nature, so--so very self-satisfied, that I am afraid it would be a difficult task to take the first step in amendment--to convince him of its necessity?
    • 1902, John Lord, Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII‎:
      The dialogue was ingrafted on the chorus, and naturally partook of its character.
    • 1920, B. G. Jefferis, J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health‎:
      In fact, all physical weakness, if ingrafted in either parent, is transmitted from parents to offspring […] .

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