rare. [f. prec. + -ATION.] The action of engrafting.
1809. R. K. Porter, Trav. Sk. Russia & Sweden, I. xxi. 230. On looking at their faces you easily discern the Tartar and Kalmuc ingraftation upon the old Moscovite stock.
1816. G. S. Faber, Origin Pag. Idol., II. 432, note. The heresy itself consisted of an ingraftation of Christianity upon a Scythian superstition. Ibid. (1817), Eight Dissert. (1845), II. 372. A sort of gratuitous ingraftation of the wickedness of the old world upon the innocence of the new world.
a. 1853. Robertson, Serm., Ser. IV. xxviii. 213. The result of that engraftation was, that the fruit which arose from the admixture savored partly of the new graft, and partly of the old stock.
