Definition of "engraft" [en•graft]

• To graft (a scion) onto or into another plant. (verb-transitive)
• To plant firmly; establish. (verb-transitive)

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• "Human bone marrow CD34 - cells engraft in vivo and undergo multilineage expression including giving rise to CD34+ cells."
• "Can you imagine the difficulty of separating humanity from the imprint of the serpent, and trying to re-engraft the race into a lineage directly and unblemishedly connected to God, as God originally intended it to be, thus bringing humanity back into the garden?"
• "This court would radically depart from the well-established limits of the judicial function were it to engraft such a restriction onto the Constitution in the absence of an explicit constitutional provision limiting the amendment power."