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embraceor

[em-brey-ser]
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noun Law.
  1. a person guilty of embracery.
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Origin of embraceor

1400–50; late Middle English < Anglo-French; Middle French embraseor instigator, equivalent to embras(er) (see embrace2) + -eor < Latin -ātōr- -ator
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British Dictionary definitions for embraceor

embraceor

embracer

noun
  1. criminal law a person guilty of embracery
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Word Origin

C15: from Old French embraseor, from embraser to instigate, literally: to set on fire, from braser to burn, from brese live coals
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