Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Embark

Embark , transitive verb

[French embarquer; pref. em- (Latin in) + barque bark: compare Sp. embarcar, Italian imbarcare. See Bark. a vessel.]

1.
To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
2.
To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade.
It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation. — South

Embark , intransitive verb

1.
To go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for Lisbon.
2.
To engage in any affair.
Slow to embark in such an undertaking. — Macaulay