Embrace vs Constitute - What's the difference?
embrace | constitute |
To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Acts xx. 1
(obsolete) To cling to; to cherish; to love.
To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome.
* Shakespeare
* John Locke
To accept; to undergo; to submit to.
* Shakespeare
To encircle; to encompass; to enclose.
* Dryden
* Denham
To enfold, to include (ideas, principles, etc.); to encompass.
To fasten on, as armour.
(legal) To attempt to influence (a jury, court, etc.) corruptly.
Hug (noun); putting arms around someone.
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*:a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
(metaphorical) Enfolding, including.
To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
* Jeremy Taylor
To make up; to compose; to form.
* Johnson
To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
* William Wordsworth
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between embrace and constitute
is that embrace is (obsolete) to cling to; to cherish; to love while constitute is (obsolete) an established law.As verbs the difference between embrace and constitute
is that embrace is to clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug while constitute is to cause to stand; to establish; to enact.As nouns the difference between embrace and constitute
is that embrace is hug (noun); putting arms around someone while constitute is (obsolete) an established law.embrace
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Alternative forms
* imbrace (obsolete)Verb
(embrac)- I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, / That he shall shrink under my courtesy.
- Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them.
- (Shakespeare)
- I wholeheartedly embrace the new legislation.
- You embrace the occasion.
- What is there that he may not embrace for truth?
- I embrace this fortune patiently.
- Not that my song, in such a scanty space, / So large a subject fully can embrace .
- Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed, / Between the mountain and the stream embraced .
- Natural philosophy embraces many sciences.
- (Spenser)
- (Blackstone)
Noun
(en noun)constitute
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(constitut)- Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority.
- Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction.
- Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine.