embrace

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “I will imbrace him with a ſouldiour's arme, / That he ſhall ſhrinke vnder my curteſie, […]”

2. fiil To seize (something) eagerly or with alacrity; to accept or take up with cordiality; to welcome.

   “I wholeheartedly embrace the new legislation.”

3. fiil 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.”

4. fiil 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; […]”

5. fiil To enfold, to include (ideas, principles, etc.); to encompass.

   “Natural philosophy embraces many sciences.”

6. fiil 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; […]”

7. fiil 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.”

8. fiil 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.”

9. isim An act of putting arms around someone and bringing the person close to the chest; a hug.

   “[E]yes, looke your laſt, / Armes take your laſt embrace: and lips, O you / The doores of breath, ſeale with a righteous kiſſe / A dateleſſe bargain to ingroſſing death: […]”

10. isim An enclosure partially or fully surrounding someone or something.

    “When he reached the ridge the outlying fog crept across the summit, caught him in its embrace, and wrapped him from her gaze.”

11. isim Full acceptance (of something).

    “And it was the white blood which sent him to the minister, which rising in him for the last and final time, sent him against all reason and all reality, into the embrace of a chimera, a blind faith in something read in a printed Book.”

12. isim An act of enfolding or including.

    “In India men are enjoined to be fully awake to the fact that they are in the closest relation to things around them, body and soul, and that they are to hail the morning sun, the flowing water, the fruitful earth, as the manifestation of the same living truth which holds them in its embrace.”