In-grāft’, v. t.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. INGRAFTED; p. pr. & vb. n. INGRAFTING.] [Prefix in and graft.] [Written also engraft.]
Sense 1. To insert, as a cion of one tree or plant into another for propagation; to propagate by incision; hence, to insert; to introduce; as, to ingraft a peach cion on a plum-tree.
This fellow would ingraft a foreign name Upon our stock. Dryden.
Sense 2. To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with a graft or cion, as a tree.
Sense 3. To set or fix deeply and firmly.
Ingrafted love he bears to Cæsar. Shak.