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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
engraft .
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Examples
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"engrafts" much more quickly, replacing the cancerous blood cells with clean blood cells.
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She there engrafts it, as it were, into her own being, and from the combined elements of her own character, builds up and establishes the character of her offspring.
The Christian Home Samuel Philips
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Shakspeare, through whose recklessness originate half the commonplaces of our land's language, thought proper to define such a condition as "SINGLE BLESSEDNESS" -- though he aptly enough engrafts it on a thorn!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various
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Christ and engrafts us in Him; yet it worketh by love, and love accompanieth faith, as the sunbeams do the sun.
The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony Thomas Houston
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'Declaration' he engrafts into his policy the deception he had practised on the Royalists, and adapts it to the benefit of the whole nation, by a description of the pious uses to which it could be applied.
The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various
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Without attempting to explain this unhoped-for resurrection, he had gone away, saying, "Let us wait and see"; he relied upon the power of youth to throw off disease, upon the resistless force of the life-giving sap, which often engrafts a new life upon the very symptoms of death.
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But the natural horror of the situation by no means satisfies this novelist; he therefore engrafts the following imaginations thereupon, as being such as were most likely to occur to the lad, frightened out of his senses, stunned by the roar of the bell, winking hard, and pressing himself closer and closer to the wall to escape the threatened blow.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various
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Without attempting to explain this unhoped-for resurrection, he had gone away, saying, "Let us wait and see"; he relied upon the power of youth to throw off disease, upon the resistless force of the life-giving sap, which often engrafts a new life upon the very symptoms of death.
Fromont and Risler — Complete Alphonse Daudet 1868
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It is true, faith is that which, as an instrument, apprehends Christ and engrafts us in Him; yet it worketh by love, and love accompanieth faith, as the sunbeams do the sun.
The Life of James Renwick Houston, Thomas 1865
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If we were educated at the South, we should no doubt vindicate slavery, and inherit as a birthright all the evils it engrafts upon the character.
An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans Lydia Maria Francis Child 1841
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