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Definition of Engraftments
1. engraftment [n] - See also: engraftment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Engraftments
Literary usage of Engraftments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh (1905)
"I set equal value on the beautiful engraftments we have borrowed from Greece and
Rome, and I am equally a friend to the encouragement of a judicious neology ..."
2. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh (1905)
"I set equal value on the beautiful engraftments we have borrowed from Greece and
Rome, and I am equally a friend to the encouragement of a judicious neology ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1798)
"... M. Nicolai an enemy to Religion : the pernicious engraftments on tbot ¡acred
stock are the proper objects of his satire. ..."
4. The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia by Georgia General Assembly (1904)
"... grow in great Abundance; That the Grapes of them are very sweet with a hard
Skin, And that these Vines are capable of great Improvement by engraftments. ..."
5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the English Romantic School by Alois Brandl (1887)
"... I supposed) of Raphael's nightly visitation, as recorded by Bramante, made me
feel uncomfortable, as all engraftments on history do. What shall I say ? ..."
6. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1887)
"... under a complications of later engraftments and refinements, derivative and
otherwise in all the religious of Asia. It may he traced, in America, ..."
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