ingraft

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They soon ingraft their own social and political system upon immense multitudes, and impose upon vast countries the dominion of that combination of facts and ideas—more or less co-ordinate—which we call a civilization.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

I ingraft, I raise heavy bodies above the clouds, and guide my course over ocean and through air.

From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

He says that he prefers a monarchy to other governments, because you can better ingraft any description of republic on a monarchy than anything of monarchy upon the republican forms.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

In speaking of accents, let me say here I do not ask the young priest to commit the signal folly of attempting to ingraft an imported accent on his own native one.

From The Young Priest's Keepsake by Phelan, Michael

There were others of note seated on the platform, who would gladly ingraft upon English institutions all that is purely republican in the institutions of America.

From My Bondage and My Freedom by Douglass, Frederick