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Webster 1913 Edition

Embrave

Em-brave′

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To inspire with bravery.
[Obs.]
Beaumont.
2.
To decorate; to make showy and fine.
[Obs.]
And with sad cypress seemly it
embraves
.
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition

Embrave

EMBRA'VE

,
Verb.
T.
[See Brave.] To embellish; to make showy.
1.
To inspire with bravery; to make bold.

Definition 2024

embrave

embrave

English

Verb

embrave ‎(third-person singular simple present embraves, present participle embraving, simple past and past participle embraved)

  1. (obsolete) To inspire with bravery.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaumont to this entry?)
  2. (obsolete) To embellish, adorn.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
      The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue [...].

Etymology

From en- +‎ brave.

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