单词 | engraftment |
释义 | engraftmentn. 1. The action of engrafting. literal and figurative. Also concrete the shoot engrafted, a graft. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting graffing1398 grafting1483 imping1600 insition1601 engraffmenta1638 engraftment1647 engrafture1654 implantation1654 engraffing1656 escutcheon1658 engrafting1667 adosculation1731 engraftation1816 1647 M. Hudson Divine Right Govt. ii. x. 165 The engraftment and plantation of Christian principles in the heart of an Infidel. a1743 R. Savage Epist. to Dyer 46 Those trees..Which from our own engraftment fruitful rise. 1745 tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry iv. xxix I engaged to give directions about ingrafting of vines, and preserving the ingraftments. 1774 S. Hallifax Anal. Rom. Law (1795) Pref. 21 The laws of England have received great improvements by ingraftments from the Roman. 1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > immunoprophylaxis > [noun] > immunization > inoculation or vaccination > against smallpox inoculation1714 engrafting1717 engraftment1724 variolation1799 vaccination1800 vaccinating1801 vacciolation1804 cow-poxingc1815 variolization1871 1724 T. Nettleton in Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 32 210 This Distemper is raised by an Ingraftment from the Small Pox. ΚΠ 1721 London Gaz. No. 5934/3 The 7l. per cent. which was due..pursuant to the Terms of the Ingraftment. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 385 The bank was allowed to enlarge its capital stock by an engraftment of 1,001,171l. 10s. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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