[f. EMBRACE v.2 + -ED.] In various senses of the vb.

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1596.  Shaks., Merch. V., II. viii. 52. And quicken his embraced heauinesse.

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1599.  Thynne, Animadv., Ded. Of that most excellente and yet embraced Custome.

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1654.  R. Codrington, trans. Ivstine’s Hist., 331. With her own body she protected the embraced bodies of her children.

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