embase

Definitions

1. To lower physically.
   obsolete, transitive
2. To bring down or lower in position, status, etc.; to degrade, humiliate.
   archaic, transitive
3. To lower the value of (a coin, commodity etc.); to debase (a coin) with alloy.
   archaic, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“[God had] Embast the valleys, and embost the hills.”

“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.”

“Alloy in coin of gold […] may make⟳ the metal work⟳ the better, but it embaseth it.”

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