Meanings of ingraft upon 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.

This fundamental principle is now ingrafted upon our constitution.

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