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Definition of Engraft
1. Verb. Cause to grow together parts from different plants. "Graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree"
2. Verb. Fix or set securely or deeply. "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"
Generic synonyms: Enter, Infix, Insert, Introduce
Specialized synonyms: Pot, Nest, Bury, Sink
Derivative terms: Implant, Implantation, Implantation, Implantation, Planting
Definition of Engraft
1. v. t. See Ingraft.
Definition of Engraft
1. Verb. To insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for the purpose of propagation; graft onto a plant ¹
2. Verb. To fix firmly into place ¹
3. Adjective. (rare) Engrafted. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Engraft
1. to graft for propagation [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Engraft
Literary usage of Engraft
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... the god of physical rapture, had engraft- tragedy, ed upon it a dialogue
between actors who represented some persons of the legends consecrated by this ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1804)
"The tutor who would make use of this course, must Fop off many superfluous
branches, and engraft on the stock several which the bishop has disregarded. ..."
3. Uncas and Miantonomoh: A Historical Discourse, Delivered at Norwich, (Conn by William Leete Stone (1842)
"Industry and sobriety, those virtues so hard to engraft upon an Indian stock,
are putting forth fruits and buds of promise. About twenty children are under ..."
4. A Treatise on the Admissibility of Parol Evidence in Respect to Written by Irving Browne (1893)
"In the absence of statutory enactment to the contrary, parol evidence is competent
to engraft a resulting trust upon a deed, even after the death of the ..."
5. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1890)
"... although equity cannot engraft an exception upon the statute, it will reserve
the right, when justice requires it, to apply its own principles, ..."
6. Pragmatism and the Problem of the Idea by John Thomas Driscoll (1915)
"118), so "the role of life is an effort to engraft on to the necessity of matter,
the largest possible amount of indetermination," ie " unforeseeable- ness, ..."
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