embraciveadj.

/ɛmˈbreɪsɪv/

Etymology: irregularly < embrace v.² + -ive suffix.

1. Given to or fond of embracing; embracing demonstratively.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [adjective] > fond of embracing

embracive1855

1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xix. 180 Not less kind..though less expansive and embracive, was Madame de Montcontour to my wife.

2. Embracing or tending to embrace all.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > condition or state of being inclusive > [adjective] > inclusive or comprehensive

largea1400

wide1534

capable1592

inclusive1604

comprehensive1614

all-comprehensive1650

complexive1654

diffused1658

comprehensional1673

perileptic1678

all-encompassing1805

unexcluding1822

widish1845

all-embracing1847

unexclusive1852

all-inclusive1858

broad1872

embracive1897

periscopic1912

wide-angle1932

umbrella1949

1897 Academy 18 Sept. (Fiction Suppl.) 70/1 ‘George Du Maurier in three volumes’ would be a fair embracive title.

1902 Academy 16 Aug. 178/1 The ‘characteristics of the time’ and the ‘natural lineaments of contemporary people’ may have found no embracive novelist.

1902 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 357 Important deities have been omitted from this brief catalogue, which is much more representative than embracive.

1930 Punch 18 June 683 Perhaps he is too embracive, for it is doubtful if Mr. William Nicholson should be grouped with purely comic artists.

Derivatives

emˈbracively adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > condition or state of being inclusive > [adverb] > comprehensively

comprehensivelya1631

complexively1843

embracively1899

1899 Westm. Gaz. 22 Apr. 7/2 General Sir W. Olpherts, V.C., in replying for ‘The Army’ embracively spoke of the American Army.

1937 Sun (Baltimore) 9 June 10/8 The two nouns are used embracively, of course, ‘the tumult and the shouting’, and anybody but a numskull would be able to see the purpose of the use of this type of expression with a singular verb.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

单词	embracive
释义	embraciveadj. /ɛmˈbreɪsɪv/ Etymology: irregularly < embrace v.² + -ive suffix. 1. Given to or fond of embracing; embracing demonstratively.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [adjective] > fond of embracing embracive1855 1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xix. 180 Not less kind..though less expansive and embracive, was Madame de Montcontour to my wife. 2. Embracing or tending to embrace all. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > condition or state of being inclusive > [adjective] > inclusive or comprehensive largea1400 wide1534 capable1592 inclusive1604 comprehensive1614 all-comprehensive1650 complexive1654 diffused1658 comprehensional1673 perileptic1678 all-encompassing1805 unexcluding1822 widish1845 all-embracing1847 unexclusive1852 all-inclusive1858 broad1872 embracive1897 periscopic1912 wide-angle1932 umbrella1949 1897 Academy 18 Sept. (Fiction Suppl.) 70/1 ‘George Du Maurier in three volumes’ would be a fair embracive title. 1902 Academy 16 Aug. 178/1 The ‘characteristics of the time’ and the ‘natural lineaments of contemporary people’ may have found no embracive novelist. 1902 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 357 Important deities have been omitted from this brief catalogue, which is much more representative than embracive. 1930 Punch 18 June 683 Perhaps he is too embracive, for it is doubtful if Mr. William Nicholson should be grouped with purely comic artists. Derivatives emˈbracively adv. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > condition or state of being inclusive > [adverb] > comprehensively comprehensivelya1631 complexively1843 embracively1899 1899 Westm. Gaz. 22 Apr. 7/2 General Sir W. Olpherts, V.C., in replying for ‘The Army’ embracively spoke of the American Army. 1937 Sun (Baltimore) 9 June 10/8 The two nouns are used embracively, of course, ‘the tumult and the shouting’, and anybody but a numskull would be able to see the purpose of the use of this type of expression with a singular verb. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < adj.1855
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