Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Ingrafted; inserted; not natural to the place.
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Examples
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The Ishmaelities are sub-Caucasian, and are denoted in history as the Arab al-Mustarribah, the insititious or half-caste Arab.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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On the other hand the Hamitic element so completely asserted its superiority over insititious
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Hamitic element so completely asserted its superiority over insititious Japheth, that almost every trace has disappeared in a couple of centuries.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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There are other passages in the poem which have the air of being insititious in the place where they stand.
Milton Mark Pattison 1848
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The “Arab al-Musta’aribah” (insititious, naturalized or instituted Arabs, men who claim to be Arabs) are Arabs like the
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