embase

See also: embasé

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From em- +‎ base. Compare Old French embaissier.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɪmˈbeɪs/

Verb

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

  1. (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.
  2. (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, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:
      Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity.
  3. (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.

Anagrams

Portuguese

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

  • Hyphenation: em‧ba‧se
  • Rhymes: -azi, -azɨ

Verb

embase

  1. inflection of embasar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

embase

  1. only used in me embase, first-person singular present subjunctive of embasarse
  2. only used in se embase, third-person singular present subjunctive of embasarse
  3. only used in se ... embase, syntactic variant of embásese, third-person singular imperative of embasarse
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