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Embase

//ɪmˈbeɪs// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To lower physically. obsolete, transitive

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

  2. 2
    To bring down or lower in position, status, etc.; to degrade, humiliate. archaic, transitive

    "And either vowd with all their power and witt To let not others honour be defaste Of friend or foe, who ever it embaste […]"

  3. 3
    To lower the value of (a coin, commodity etc.); to debase (a coin) with alloy. archaic, transitive

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

Etymology

From em- + base. Compare Old French embaissier.

See also for "embase"

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