| 单词 |
engraftment |
| 释义 |
engraftment|ɛnˈgrɑːftmənt, -græf-|
Also in-.
[f. as prec. + -ment.]
1. The action of engrafting. lit. and fig. Also concr. the shoot engrafted, a graft.
1647M. Hudson Div. Right Govt. ii. x. 165 The engraftment and plantation of Christian principles in the heart of an Infidel. a1743Savage Ep. Dyer 46 Those trees..Which from our own engraftment fruitful rise. 1745tr. Columella's Husb. iv. xxix, I engaged to give directions about ingrafting of vines, and preserving the ingraftments. 1774S. Hallifax Anal. Rom. Law (1795) Pref. 21 The laws of England have received great improvements by ingraftments from the Roman. 1837Whittock Bk. Trades (1842) 370 The consequent ingraftment of Norman French upon the previous Saxonish dialects. 1858Sat. 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.
1722Nettleton 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.
1721Lond. Gaz. No. 5934/3 The 7l. per cent. which was due..pursuant to the Terms of the Ingraftment. 1776Adam Smith W.N. I. ii. ii. 319 The Bank was allowed to enlarge its capital by an engraftment of 1,001,171l. 10s. |
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