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† enˈgraff, inˈgraff, v. Obs. or arch.
[f. en-1, in- + graff v.]
1. = engraft v. 1.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. iv. 33 He..nygh the roote ingraffeth his sarment. 1590Marlowe 2nd Pt. Tamburl. ii. iii, That Zoacum, that fruit of bitterness, That in the midst of fire is ingraff'd. a1617Bayne On Eph. (1658) 140 Before wee engraffe a Science, wee cut it, and set it for incision. a1667Cowley Shortness Life Wks. (1688) 138 Who does a slight and annual Plant engraff Upon a lasting stock. 1765A. Dickson Treat. Agric. iii. (ed. 3) 35 There is scarcely a kind of tree, but may be ingraffed into any other kind. a1803Beattie tr. Virgil's Past. i. (R.), Mow Melibœus, now ingraff the pear, Now teach the vine its tender sprays to rear!
2. fig. = engraft v. 2.
a1400Wyclif 1 Tim. vi. 10 The which sum men coueitynge, erreden fro the feith, and bisettiden [v.r. ingraffiden; L. inserebant] hem with many sorwis. c1449Pecock Repr. 563 He is ouer greet to be ingraffid here. 1542Becon Christm. Banq. Wks. (1843) 74 He is ‘the vine,’ in whom we being ingraffed must needs bring forth much fruit. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. ii. 145 He did after a certain maner engraffe them into y⊇ household of Abraham. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. ii. 142 To ingrafe and poure in the hartis of the ignorant people, diuine rites. 1605Answ. Supposed Discov. Rom. Doctr. &c. 46 They be matriculated and ingraffed to the University. 1641Milton Ch. Discip. i. (1851) 20 How many surreptitious works are ingraff'd into the legitimate writings of the Fathers. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 83 That there is a God..is..naturally ingraffed into the minds of all men. 1695E. Welchman Husbandm. Manual (1707) 43 There are too many, who, tho' engraffed into the Church, live no better..than many Heathens. 1739Grobianus 224 The better to ingraff In Mem'ry ev'ry useful Paragraph.
b. To beget. rare.
1864Swinburne Atalanta 963 [Children] All holy born, engraffed of Tantalus.
†c. In pass.: To be closely attached to. Obs.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. ii. 67 You haue beene so lewde, and so much ingraffed to Falstaffe.
Hence enˈgraffed, ppl. a. enˈgraffer, enˈgraffing, vbl. n. enˈgraffment = engraftment.
1586T. Rogers 39 Art. (1621) 125 Before men be regenerate, they are..not engraffed, but wild olives. 1604Shakes. Oth. ii. iii. 145 With one of an ingraft Infirmitie. a1619Donne βιαθανατος (1644) 81 This first ingraffed and inborne desire. 1643T. Goodwin Trial Chr. Growth 8 He is the ingraffer, and implanter of all the branches into this Vine. a1655Vines Lord's Supp. (1677) 285 The one seals our engraffing and implanting into Christ. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. III. 52 Engraffing..incorporates one sort of Plant with a Tree of another. a1638Mede Wks. i. xlii. 236 By their spiritual engraffment into him. |