verb (v)

• choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans(verb.possession)

  Example:
  The candidate espouses Republican ideals.
  

  Synonym:
  adopt, follow
  

  source: wordnet30
• take in marriage(verb.social)

  Synonym:
  conjoin, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry, wed
  

  source: wordnet30
• take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own(verb.cognition)

  Synonym:
  adopt, embrace, sweep up
  

  source: wordnet30
• To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.(verb)

  source: webster1913