| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. One guilty of embracery.[Websters]. | |
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Date "EMBRACEOR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EMBRACEOR
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| Law | EMBRACEOR, criminal law. He who, when a matter is on trial between party and party, comes to the bar with one of the parties, and having received some reward so to do, speaks in the case or privily labors the jury, or stands there to survey or overlook them, thereby to put them in fear and doubt of the matter. But persons learned in the law may speak in a case for their clients. Co. Litt. 369; Terms de la Ley. A person who is guilty of embracery. (q.v.). (references) | ||
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