Word Meanings - EMBRAVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To inspire with bravery. Beaumont. 2. To decorate; to make showy and fine. And with sad cypress seemly it embraves. Spenser.

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• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• BEAUMONTAGUE
  A cement used in making joints, filling cracks, etc. For iron, the principal constituents are iron borings and sal ammoniac; for wood, white lead or litharge, whiting, and linseed oil.
• INSPIRED
  1. Breathed in; inhaled. 2. Moved or animated by, or as by, a supernatural influence; affected by divine inspiration; as, the inspired prophets; the inspired writers. 3. Communicated or given as by supernatural or divine inspiration; having divine
• SEEMLYHED
  Comely or decent appearance. Rom. of R. Spenser.
• INSPIRE
  inspirer, fr. L. inspirare; pref. in- in + spirare to breathe. See 1. To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate. When Zephirus eek, with his sweete breath, Inspirèd hath in every holt and health The tender crops. Chaucer. Descend, ye
• SEEMLY
  Suited to the object, occasion, purpose, or character; suitable; fit; becoming; comely; decorous. He had a seemly nose. Chaucer. I am a woman, lacking wit To make a seemly answer to such persons. Shak. Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity
• BRAVERY
  1. The quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity. Remember, sir, my liege, . . . The natural bravery of your isle. Shak. 2. The act of braving; defiance; bravado. Reform, then, without bravery or scandal of former times and persons.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• INSPIRER
  One who, or that which, inspirer. "Inspirer of that holy flame." Cowper.
• CYPRESS
  A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability. Note: Among the trees called cypress are the common Oriental cypress, Cupressus sempervirens, the evergreen American cypress,
• SHOWY
  , a. Etym:
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• BESEEMLY
  Fit; suitable; becoming. In beseemly order sitten there. Shenstone.
• DEDECORATE
  To bring to shame; to disgrace. Bailey.
• REINSPIRE
  To inspire anew. Milton.