Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To graft (a scion) onto or into another plant.
- transitive verb To plant firmly; establish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- etc. See
ingraft , etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb See
ingraft .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To insert, as a
scion of one tree or plant into another, for the purpose ofpropagation ;graft onto a plant - verb To
fix firmly into place - adjective rare
Engrafted .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to grow together parts from different plants
- verb fix or set securely or deeply
Etymologies
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Examples
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Human bone marrow CD34 - cells engraft in vivo and undergo multilineage expression including giving rise to CD34+ cells.
Fetal Stem Cell Transplantation, In Utero Stemm Cell Publications 2010
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We must agree with certain principles, but the main thing we think about is Jesus - how His work and life and promises engraft into us.
TEXAS FAITH: Is wickedness soluble in good deeds? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009
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Can you imagine the difficulty of separating humanity from the imprint of the serpent, and trying to re-engraft the race into a lineage directly and unblemishedly connected to God, as God originally intended it to be, thus bringing humanity back into the garden?
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This court would radically depart from the well-established limits of the judicial function were it to engraft such a restriction onto the Constitution in the absence of an explicit constitutional provision limiting the amendment power.
In the Fold: Small Bikes and Fancy Pants BikeSnobNYC 2009
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But the cases on which the district court relied do not engraft a rigid procedural/substantive distinction onto Section 2(b)(2).
USPTO Files CAFC Appeal Brief: Tafas v. Dudas Peter Zura 2008
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He had been in isolation for weeks, because the chemotherapy and drugs they used to make his new bone marrow engraft left him with no immune system.
CSS: Christmas Cheer Jack Canfield 2008
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It was unnatural for God to "engraft Gentiles onto the Jewish olive tree" (Romans 11: 24) and unnatural for women to have short hair, or for men to have long hair.
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He had been in isolation for weeks, because the chemotherapy and drugs they used to make his new bone marrow engraft left him with no immune system.
CSS: Christmas Cheer Jack Canfield 2008
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But the cases on which the district court relied do not engraft a rigid procedural/substantive distinction onto Section 2(b)(2).
Archive 2008-07-01 Peter Zura 2008
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§ 284 "The court may increase the damages up to three times the amount found or assessed.", and because there is no principled reason for continuing to engraft a willfulness requirement onto section 284, I believe we should adhere to the plain meaning of the statute and leave the discretion to enhance damages in the capable hands of the district courts.
In Re Seagate - CAFC Clarifies Attorney-Client Waiver, and then Some . . . Peter Zura 2007
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