"embraced the definition" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about someone who has accepted or taken on a particular definition as their own. For example, "John embraced the definition of success as more than just financial wealth."
Thus, in coming months, we can expect some on the right to label the Obama nominee as activist (a term not quite as vitriolic as "turn-'em-loose Bruce") and their counterparts on the left to denounce those who resist any liberal choice as "the last bleat of a strict constuctionist" (though not quite embracing the definition of that phrase by the 1841 Congressional Globe as "a Pharisee's Pharisee").
We embrace the definition of marriage in our State constitution as the union of one man and one woman.
KAPTUR's findings, useful toolkits, reports and outcomes have not filtered through to most visual arts researchers however and few therefore have embraced the idea that the definition of research data can be broadened.
"If an element of chance is involved in a particular game, it is embraced within the definition of 'bet,'" he said.
Horrified and furious, Enrique embraces the only definition of masculinity he knows, beginning a backslide down the criminal path that his watchful parole officer (Isiah Whitlock Jr). is unable to prevent.
There may not be a birth certificate for comics (especially if you embrace the broader definition of "sequential art"), but the strip was certainly raised in New York, and well fed by the competition between newspapers and their publishers in the early 1900s.
Facebook needs to rethink its entire product stack to embrace the high-definition cameras, big phone screens and fast network connections that make it easier to convey information through imagery than text.
We have no data regarding the agreement from the other 13 studies examining medications that embraced this definition for preventable harm.
At another point, Donald Trump embraced that definition as well.
