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Implant

noun

A prosthesis placed permanently in tissue.

verb

(past & past part. implanted; pres. part. implanting)

Fix or set securely or deeply. Synonyms: embed, engraft, imbed, plant. "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"

Become attached to and embedded in the uterus.

Put firmly in the mind. Synonym: plant.

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"Implant" Quotes from Famous Books

... regards it as a frequent cause of permanent sexual anaesthesia. "This first moment in which the man's individuality attains its full rights often decides the whole of life. The unskilled, over-excited husband can then implant the seed of feminine insensibility, and by continued awkwardness and coarseness develop it into permanent anaesthesia. The man who takes possession of his rights with reckless brutal masculine force merely causes his wife anxiety and ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... tenement house, among her relatives and friends who had already emigrated, than in another part of County Galway. Educational science in Ireland has always ignored the life history of the subject with which it dealt. In no respect has this neglect been so unconsciously cruel as in its failure to implant in the Irish mind that appreciation of the material aspects of the home which the people so badly need both in Ireland and in America If the Irishman abroad became 'a rootless colonist of alien earth,' the lot of the Irishman in Ireland has been not less melancholy. Sadness there is, indeed, ...

— Ireland In The New Century • Horace Plunkett

... my sermon, "that it is the accessibility of alcohol that has given me my taste for alcohol. I did not care for it. I used to laugh at it. Yet here I am, at the last, possessed with the drinker's desire. It took twenty years to implant that desire; and for ten years more that desire has grown. And the effect of satisfying that desire is anything but good. Temperamentally I am wholesome-hearted and merry. Yet when I walk with John Barleycorn I suffer all the ...

— John Barleycorn • Jack London

... attitude toward their work, they become fault-finders rather than teachers. They nag, harrass, and suppress. The business of the teacher is to make the student see visions of beauty, truth and love, to open up to him these mighty fields that he may go in and possess them. To implant a yearning, an unquenchable, all-consuming desire to comprehend and to express the emotions of which his teacher enables him ...

— The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 - December, 1906. • Various

... civilised now, yet some who consider themselves such, seem to entertain a desire to return to barbarism. Human nature, in truth, is the same in all ages, and what is called culture is only a thin veneer. Nothing but to be made partaker of the Divine nature will implant the ...

— The White Lady of Hazelwood - A Tale of the Fourteenth Century • Emily Sarah Holt

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