English Dictionary

embrace

/ɛmˈbɹeɪs/

verb

(transitive) To clasp (someone or each other) in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.

She decided to embrace the opportunity and take on the challenge.

意味（1）

(transitive) To clasp (someone or each other) in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.

There was no faynting faith in that Dogge, which when his Master by a mischaunce in hunting stumbled and fell toppling downe a deepe dytche beyng vnable to recouer of himselfe, the Dogge signifying his masters mishappe, reskue came, and he was hayled up by a rope, whom the Dogge seeying almost drawne up to the edge of the dytche, cheerefully saluted, leaping and skipping vpon his master as though he would haue imbraced hym, beying glad of his presence, whose longer absence he was lothe to lacke.

意味（2）

(transitive, figuratively) To seize (something) eagerly or with alacrity; to accept or take up with cordiality; to welcome.

I wholeheartedly embrace the new legislation.

意味（3）

(transitive, figuratively) To submit to; to undergo.

What I haue done my ſafety vrg'd me to: / And I embrace this fortune patiently, / Since not to be auoided it fals on me.

意味（4）

(transitive, also figuratively) To encircle; to enclose, to encompass.

Low at his foot a ſpacious Plain is plac't, / Between the Mountain and the Stream embrac't: / Which ſhade and ſhelter from the Hill derives, / While the kind River Wealth and Beauty gives; …

意味（5）

(transitive, figuratively) To enfold, to include (ideas, principles, etc.); to encompass.

Natural philosophy embraces many sciences.

意味（6）

(transitive, obsolete, rare) To fasten on, as armour.

VVho ſeeing him from far ſo fierce to pricke, / His warlike armes about him gan embrace, / And in the reſt his ready ſpeare did ſticke; …

意味（7）

(transitive, figuratively, obsolete) To accept (someone) as a friend; to accept (someone's) help gladly.

He bears himſelfe more proudlier, / Euen to my perſon, then I thought he would / When firſt I did embrace him.

意味（8）

(transitive, law, figuratively, obsolete) To attempt to influence (a court, jury, etc.) corruptly; to practise embracery.

The puniſhment for the perſon embracing is by fine and impriſonment; and, for the juror ſo embraced, if it be by taking money, the puniſhment is (by divers ſtatutes of the reign of Edward III) perpetual infamy, impriſonment for a year, and forfeiture of the tenfold value.