Also in-. [f. as prec. + -MENT.]
1. The action of engrafting. lit. and fig. Also concr. the shoot engrafted, a graft.
1647. M. Hudson, Div. Right Govt., II. x. 165. The engraftment and plantation of Christian principles in the heart of an Infidel.
a. 1743. Savage, Ep. Dyer, 46. Those trees … Which from our own engraftment fruitful rise.
1745. trans. Columella’s Husb., IV. xxix. I engaged to give directions about ingrafting of vines, and preserving the ingraftments.
1774. Bp. Halifax, Anal. Rom. Law (1795), Pref. 21. The laws of England have received great improvements by ingraftments from the Roman.
1837. Whittock, Bk. Trades (1842), 370. The consequent ingraftment of Norman French upon the previous Saxonish dialects.
1858. Sat. Rev., 14 Aug., 166/1. On that fatal day [Bosworth Field] the White Rose withered for ever, and he cannot stomach its engraftment on the rival stalk.
† 2. = INOCULATION. Obs. Cf. ENGRAFT v. 3 b.
1722. Nettleton, Inoculation, in Phil. Trans., XXXII. 210. This Distemper is raised by an Ingraftment from the Small Pox.
† 3. The issuing of additional stock in a trading company. Obs. Cf. ENGRAFT v. 2 c.
1721. Lond. Gaz., No. 5934/3. The 7l. per cent. which was due … pursuant to the Terms of the Ingraftment.
1776. Adam Smith, W. N., I. II. ii. 319. The Bank was allowed to enlarge its capital by an engraftment of 1,001,171l. 10s.
