Meanings of ingraft in English

Whatever little advantages the old system might have, they wished to retain and ingraft upon their new life.

The Scot's inalienable prerogative of pedigree exercised an influence over him, though he appeared as a foreign ingraft upon his Scotch family tree.

Wherefore according as acts of virtue act causally or dispositively towards their generation and preservation, obedience is said to ingraft and protect all virtues.

Apples and pears are more easily propagated by ingrafting than by budding.

The dialogue was ingrafted on the chorus, and naturally partook of its character.

She had her father's sweet temper ingrafted on her mother's variable Southern nature.

Hence the necessity of our being ingrafted into him, as branches into a vine.

This fundamental principle is now ingrafted upon our constitution.

My advice to all ecclesiastical students is-searchand see if unmannerly ways are ingrafting themselves into your character.

Real friendship is of slow growth, and never thrives, unless ingrafted upon a stock of known and reciprocal merit.

Another principle must be ingrafted into our tariff laws, growing out of new modes of production by corporations and combinations.

This principle was ingrafted into the treaty of commerce with France; but no stipulation on the subject had been made with England.

In compliment to Mahmud, perhaps he ingrafted them on his own poem, or more probably they have been interpolated since.]

By that time the new words were so numerous and so strongly ingrafted on the native stock that all subsequent additions are unimportant.