Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To graft again.
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- verb transitive To
graft again or anew. - noun A second or subsequent
graft .
Etymologies
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re- + graft
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Examples
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I think I shall regraft most of these to the Thomas and some of the later varieties.
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Yet it must be admitted that this family formed a very good stock whereon to regraft a name which sadly wanted such renovation.
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Yet it must be admitted that this family formed a very good stock whereon to regraft a name which sadly wanted such renovation.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884
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We cannot regraft theistic historicism back onto the result.
Darwiniana 2008
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