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Embrace   /ɛmbrˈeɪs/  /ɪmbrˈeɪs/   Listen
verb
Embrace  v. t.  To fasten on, as armor. (Obs.)


Embrace  v. t.  (past & past part. embraced; pres. part. embracing)  
1.
To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug. "I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, That he shall shrink under my courtesy." "Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them."
2.
To cling to; to cherish; to love.
3.
To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome. "I embrace these conditions." "You embrace the occasion." "What is there that he may not embrace for truth?"
4.
To encircle; to encompass; to inclose. "Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed, Between the mountain and the stream embraced."
5.
To include as parts of a whole; to comprehend; to take in; as, natural philosophy embraces many sciences. "Not that my song, in such a scanty space, So large a subject fully can embrace."
6.
To accept; to undergo; to submit to. "I embrace this fortune patiently."
7.
(Law) To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court.
Synonyms: To clasp; hug; inclose; encompass; include; comprise; comprehend; contain; involve; imply.


Embrace  v. i.  To join in an embrace.


noun
Embrace  n.  Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug. "We stood tranced in long embraces, Mixed with kisses."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Embrace" Quotes from Famous Books



... princes of Tyre and Venice and Liverpool, and we behold, in these imperial towers, the types of the magnificence of the coming time. There never was so fair and superb, ample and opulent a bride as she, in the wholesome arms of the ocean that embrace these islands, adorned with the trophies of the wealth of the world, and whose rulers, the slavery of crime abolished, are the sovereign millions. These are new developments of authority, new ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various
... that Wei at first was the eastern portion of the old domain of the kings of Shang. With this a brother of king W, called Khang-sh, was invested. The principality was afterwards increased by the absorption of Phei and Yung. It came to embrace portions of the present provinces of Kih-l, Shan-tung, and Ho-nan. It outlasted the dynasty of Ku itself, the last prince of Wei being reduced to the ranks of the people only during the dynasty ...
— The Shih King • James Legge
... "connected with you, I cannot understand; you call yourself a thorough-going Papist, yet are continually saying the most pungent things against Popery, and turning to unbounded ridicule those who show any inclination to embrace it." ...
— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow
... first view Meteorology may appear to occupy but a limited sphere, upon a closer examination it will be found to embrace almost all the sciences, and to be commensurate with Nature itself. It is continually influencing us, by its agencies appealing to our senses, ministering to our wants, ...
— Atlantic Monthly Vol. 6, No. 33, July, 1860 • Various
... had torn her hands out of Mme. la Duchesse's grasp and now was struggling to free herself from Jeanne's terrified and clinging embrace. ...
— The Bronze Eagle - A Story of the Hundred Days • Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy


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