embase
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embase
- /ɪmˈbeɪs/
Where it comes from
From em- + base. Compare Old French embaissier.
verb embases · embasing · embased · imbase
- To lower physically. [God had] Embast the valleys, and embost the hills.
- To bring down or lower in position, status, etc.; to degrade, humiliate. And either vowd with all their power and witt To let not others honour be defaste Of friend or foe, who ever it embaste […]
- 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.
