Definition of "ingrafted" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of ingraft. (verb)

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• ""The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.""
• "Thomas Jefferson said: "The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.""
• "In 1811, for example, New York Chancellor James Kent upheld a blasphemy conviction on the ground that "we are a Christian people, and the morality of the country is deeply ingrafted upon Christianity.""