embase

See also: embasé

English

From em- ‎ base. Compare Old French embaissier.

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embase (third-person singular simple present embases, present participle embasing, simple past and past participle embased)

(obsolete, transitive) To lower physically.
- 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “(please specify the page)”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:
  [God had] Embast the valleys, and embost the hills.
(archaic, transitive) To bring down or lower in position, status, etc.; to degrade, humiliate.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  And either vowd with all their power and witt
  To let not others honour be defaste
  Of friend or foe, who ever it embaste […]
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
  Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity.
(archaic, transitive) To lower the value of (a coin, commodity etc.); to debase (a coin) with alloy.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Truth”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
  Alloy in coin of gold […] may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.

(Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈba.zi/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈba.zi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽˈba.ze/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩˈba.ze/

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