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Definition of Engrafted
1. engraft [v] - See also: engraft
Lexicographical Neighbors of Engrafted
Literary usage of Engrafted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"The same possession, with a title engrafted upon it through his instrumentality,
revested in him, and it is now within the reach of a court of equity, ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"In Indiana the Statute of 13th Elizabeth has been adopted, and two provisions
applicable to this case engrafted on it. The first declares that "No ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Perpetuity: Or, Remoteness in Limitations by William David Lewis (1843)
"Here, it will be perceived, the restrictive gift is engrafted upon a limitation,
perfectly complete in itself, and does not, there- tore, so necessarily ..."
4. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie (1813)
"But of all productions the most monstrous in my eyes, are those in which fiction
is engrafted on history. Let me have fact or fable, but not a preposterous ..."
5. The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh Century to the by Thomas Warton (1840)
"Feudal manners, and Arabian imagery engrafted on the Trojan story. Anecdotes of
ancient Gothic architecture displayed in the structure of Troy. ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"... partly by the written agreement, and partly by the subsequent verbal terms,
engrafted upon what will be thus left of the written agreement." § 1143. ..."
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