Obs. Also 4 imbrace, 6 enbrace, -se. [f. EN- + BRACE sb.2] trans. To fix with a brace or buckle; to fasten, fit close.

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  [Perh. suggested by a misapprehension of EMBRACE v.1]

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c. 1475[?].  Sqr. lowe Degre, 227, in Ritson, Metr. Rom., III. 154. Your plates unto your body shal be enbraste.

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1509.  Hawes, Past. Pleas., XXVII. lxv. And to his legge he my stede enbraced.

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1596.  Spenser, F. Q., II. i. 26. Who … His warlike armes about him gan embrace.

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