† engraffingraffv.

Etymology: < en- prefix¹, in- prefix¹ + graff v.¹

Obsolete or archaic.

1. = engraft v. 1.

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > propagate [verb (transitive)] > a cutting: graft

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c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 33 He..nygh the roote ingraffeth his sarment.

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. G5^v That zoacum that fruit of bitternesse, That in the midst of fire is ingrafft.

a1617 P. Baynes Comm. Ephes. (1658) 140 Before wee engraffe a Science, wee cut it, and set it for incision.

a1667 A. Cowley Shortness Life in Wks. (1688) 138 Who does a slight and annual Plant engraff Upon a lasting stock.

1760 J. Beattie tr. Virgil 1st Pastoral in Orig. Poems & Transl. 97 Now, Meliboeus, now ingraff the pear, Now teach the vine its tender sprays to rear!

1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. i. iii. 33 There is scarcely a kind of tree, but may be ingraffed into any other kind.

a. figurative. = engraft v. 2.

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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > so as to unite

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a1400 J. Wyclif 1 Tim. vi. 10 The which sum men coueitynge, erreden fro the feith, and bisettiden [v.r. ingraffiden; L. inserebant] hem with many sorwis.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 563 He is ouer greet to be ingraffid here.

1542 T. Becon Christmas Bankette sig. E.j^v He is the vyne, in whome we beyng ingraffed must nedes brynge forthe muche fruyte.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. ii. f. 145 He did after a certain maner engraffe them into y^e household of Abraham.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 142 To ingrafe and poure in the hartis of the ignorant people, diuine rites.

1605 Answ. Supposed Discov. Rom. Doctr. &c. 46 They be matriculated and ingraffed to the University.

1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 25 How many surreptitious works are ingraff'd into the legitimate writings of the Fathers.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 83 in Justice Vindicated That there is a God..is..naturally ingraffed into the minds of all men.

1695 E. Welchman Husbandm. Man. (1707) 43 There are too many, who, tho' engraffed into the Church, live no better..than many Heathens.

1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 224 The better to ingraff In Mem'ry ev'ry useful Paragraph.

b. To beget. rare.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (transitive)] > beget

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1864 A. C. Swinburne Atalanta 963 [Children] All holy born, engraffed of Tantalus.

†c. In passive: To be closely attached to. Obsolete.

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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (transitive)] > be closely attached to

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1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. ii. 55 You haue been so lewd and so much engraffed to Falstaffe.

Derivatives

enˈgraffed adj.

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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [adjective] > so as to unite

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [adjective] > grafted

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1607 T. Rogers Faith, Doctr., & Relig. 57 Before men be regenerate, they are..not engraffed, but wild oliues.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 132 With one of an ingraft infirmity.

a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) ii. ii. §3 This first ingraffed and inborne desire.

enˈgraffer adj.

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1641 T. Goodwin Tryall Christians Growth Introd. 11 He is the ingraffer, and implanter of all the branches into this Vine.

enˈgraffing n.

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting

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1656 R. Vines Treat. Inst. Lords-Supper xxi. 256 Unto this Covenant..hang two seals, the one seals our engraffing and implanting unto Christ.

1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. III. 52 Engraffing..incorporates one sort of Plant with a Tree of another.

enˈgraffment n. = engraftment n.

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