Meaning of embase | Babel Free

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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