insition

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noun

The insertion of a scion in a stock; engraftment.

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Meanings

nouninsition (countable and uncountable, plural insitions)

plural insitions

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableagricultureThe insertion of a scion in a stock; engraftment.

    by insition of the scion upon his own other

    a. 1683 (date written), Thomas Browne, edited by Simon Wilkin, Sir Thomas Browne’s Works […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: William Pickering; Norwich, Norfolk: Josiah Fletcher, →OCLC
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    No Tillage or Agriculture ; no Reaping or Mowing ; no Plowing or Digging ; no Pruning or Lopping ; Grafting or Insition

    1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC

Origin

From insitio, from inserere, insitum (“to sow or plant in, to ingraft”), from in- (“in”) + serere, satum (“to sow”).

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Chicago

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