0 past simple and past participle of embrace --
1 to accept something enthusiastically: --
This was an opportunity that he would embrace.
2 to hold someone tightly with both arms to express love, liking, or sympathy, or when greeting or leaving someone: --
3 to include something, often as one of a number of things: --
Linguistics embraces a diverse range of subjects such as phonetics and stylistics.
In the 1630s, in his middle age, he embraced the notion of change in the heavens.
The end of the essential archaeological subject, if embraced, will force the discipline to account for the production of subjects in immediate sociopolitical contexts.
Nonetheless, just as some academics have been quick to espouse local ideas, so local people have embraced scientific terminology to promote their causes.
The general public, it seems, discounted the views of such writers and embraced instead the more commonly expressed negative image of old age.
We are a population that has embraced everyday technological 'communications' advances such as automatic teller machines, cable television, cable-less television and wireless telephones.
Yet few local authorities and voluntary organisations have embraced this model in their advice work, despite government exhortations to do so.
In as much as pension insurance embraced the entire population, insurance for work-related injuries needed to include that part of the population that was employed.
Rather, the school embraced and merged two ideals of womanhood: the woman of the home and the woman of the civic arena.
