Meaning

Obsolete spelling of embrace..

Example Sentences

The louer refused of his loue imbraceth death. [poem title]

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.

There with great joyance and with gladsome glee, / Of faire Paeana I received was, / And oft imbrast, as if that I were hee […]

The dreames (braue mates) that did beſet my bed, / VVhen ſleepe but nevvly had imbraſt the night, / Commaunds me leaue theſe unrenovvmed beames, […]

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

And after the vprore was ceaſed, Paul called vnto him the diſciples, and imbraced them, & departed, for to go into Macedonia.

[…] Love, though not wholly blind, as Poets wrong him, yet having but one eye, as being born an Archer aiming, and that eye not the quickeſt in this dark region here below, which is not Loves proper ſphere, partly out of the ſimplicity, and credulity which is native to him, often deceiv'd, imbraces and comforts him with theſe obvious and ſuborned ſtriplings, as if they were his Mothers own Sons, for ſo he thinks them, while they ſuttly keep themſelves moſt on his blind ſide.

Theſe lulld by Nightingales imbraceing ſlept, / And on thir naked limbs the flourie roof / Showrd Roſes, which the Morn, repair'd.

Word Forms

• imbraces
• imbracing
• imbraced
• imbrast

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