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Webster 1913 Edition
Embase
Em-base′
,Verb.
T.
[Pref.
em-
+ base
, a. or v. t.: cf. OF. embaissier
.] To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate.
[Obs.]
Embased
the valleys, and embossed the hills. Sylvester.
Alloy in coin of gold . . . may make the metal work the better, but it
embaseth
it. Bacon.
Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to
embase
divinity. South.
Webster 1828 Edition
Embase
EMBA'SE
,Verb.
T.
The virtue--of a tree embased by the ground.
I have no ignoble end--that may embase my poor judgment.
1.
To degrade; to vilify.[This word is seldom used.]
Definition 2024
embase
embase
See also: embasé
English
Verb
embase (third-person singular simple present embases, present participle embasing, simple past and past participle embased)
- (obsolete) Physically to lower.
- Embased the valleys, and embossed the hills. — Sylvester.
- (obsolete, transitive) To bring down or lower in position, status, etc.; to degrade, humiliate.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- And either vowd with all their power and witt / To let not others honour be defaste / Of friend or foe, who ever it embaste [...].
- Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity. — South.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- (obsolete) To lower the value of (a coin, commodity etc.); to debase (a coin) with alloy.
- Alloy in coin of gold […] may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. — Francis Bacon.