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EMBRACER

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em⋅brace

1  [em-breys] verb, -braced, -brac⋅ing, noun
Use EMBRACER in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to take or clasp in the arms; press to the bosom; hug.
2. to take or receive gladly or eagerly; accept willingly: to embrace an idea.
3. to avail oneself of: to embrace an opportunity.
4. to adopt (a profession, a religion, etc.): to embrace Buddhism.
5. to take in with the eye or the mind.
6. to encircle; surround; enclose.
7. to include or contain: An encyclopedia embraces a great number of subjects.
–verb (used without object)
8. to join in an embrace.
–noun
9. an act or instance of embracing.
Origin:
1300–50; ME < AF, OF embracier, equiv. to em- em- 1 + bracier to embrace, deriv. of brace the two arms; see brace

Related forms:
em⋅brace⋅a⋅ble, adjective
em⋅brace⋅ment, noun
em⋅brac⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
2. adopt, espouse, welcome. 3. seize. 7. comprise, cover, embody. See include.

Antonyms:
7. exclude.

em⋅brace

2  [em-breys]
–verb (used with object), -braced, -brac⋅ing. Law.
to attempt to influence (a judge or jury) through corrupt means.
Origin:
1400–1450; late ME: to influence, prejudice, bribe (a jury), perh. the same word as embrace 1 , influenced by embrasen to set on fire (< MF embraser; see em- 1 , braise )

Related forms:
em⋅brac⋅er, noun
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em·brace·or or em·brac·er   (ěm-brā'sər)   
n.  One guilty of attempting to influence a court illegally.

[Middle English imbrasour, from Anglo-Norman embraceor, probably from embracer, to embrace, incite, influence a court by illegal means, from Old French; see embrace.]
em·brac·er 1   (ěm-brā'sər)   
n.  One that embraces: an embracer of novel ideas.
em·brac·er 2   (ěm-brā'sər)   
n.  Variant of embraceor.
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Word Origin & History

embrace 
c.1300, from O.Fr. embracer "clasp in the arms, enclose," from en- "in" + brace "the arms," from L. bracchium (neut. pl. brachia). Replaced O.E. clyppan, also fæðm.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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