ppl. a. [f. ENGRAFT v. + -ED1.] In the senses of the vb. lit. and fig. † Engrafted holding: = EMPHYTEUSIS.

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c. 1600.  Shaks., Sonn., xxxvii. I make my love engrafted to this store.

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1611.  Bible, Jas. i. 21. Receiue with meeknesse the engrafted word, which is able to saue your soules.

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1657.  Austen, Fruit Trees, II. 21. The Tree is certainly good, an ingrafted Tree.

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1721.  Lond. Gaz., No. 5934/2. The Proprietors of the ingrafted stock are required to make the Payment of 3l. per cent.

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1762.  J. Brown, Poetry & Mus., xi. (1763), 185–6. On their first Entrance into ROME, these dramatic shews were no longer in their natural, but in an ingrafted State.

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c. 1766.  Burke, Tracts Popery Laws, Wks. IX. 391. The Romans … therefore invented this species of engrafted holding.

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1807.  J. E. Smith, Phys. Bot., 35. He found a layer of new wood under the engrafted bark.

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