Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The insertion of a scion in a stock; ingraftment.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The insertion of a scion in a stock; ingraftment.

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  • noun The insertion of a scion in a stock; engraftment.

Etymologies

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Latin insitio, from inserere, insitum, to sow or plant in, to ingraft; prefix in- in + serere, satum, to sow.

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Examples

  • To act faith upon the fulness that is in Christ for our supply is an eminent way of abiding in Christ, for both our insition and abode is by faith, Rom. xi.

    Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers 1616-1683 1967

  • And we have all these things by virtue of our insition or implantation in him: ex autou, — “from,” “of,” or “by him.”

    The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

  • He does the same by that actual insition or implantation into himself which he gives us by faith, which is of his own operation.

    Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ 1616-1683 1965

  • How our insition or implanting into Christ is represented and signified by our baptism, the apostle declares, Rom.vi. 3 – 5; as also our communion with him in his death, by the supper of the Lord, Matt. xxvi.

    A Brief Instruction in the Worship of God 1616-1683 1965

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