Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed,
Between the mountain and the stream embraced.
Denham.
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.
Dryden.
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6. To accept; to undergo; to submit to. "I embrace this fortune patiently." Shak.