Ingrafted vs Engrafted - What's the difference?
ingrafted | engrafted |
(ingraft)
* {{quote-book, year=1852, author=James Fenimore Cooper, title=Precaution, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Why, everything about the colonel seems so seated, so ingrafted in his nature, so--so very self-satisfied, that I am afraid it would be a difficult task to take the first step in amendment--to convince him of its necessity? }}
* {{quote-book, year=1902, author=John Lord, title=Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The dialogue was ingrafted on the chorus, and naturally partook of its character. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1920, author=B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols, title=Searchlights on Health, chapter=, edition=
, passage=In fact, all physical weakness, if ingrafted in either parent, is transmitted from parents to offspring
(engraft)
To insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for the purpose of propagation; graft onto a plant
To fix firmly into place
As verbs the difference between ingrafted and engrafted
is that ingrafted is past tense of ingraft while engrafted is past tense of engraft.ingrafted
English
Verb
(head)ingraft
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Verb
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