Abaisse vs Abase - What's the difference?
abaisse | abase |
(heraldry) Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield.
* 1896 , John Woodward, A treatise on heraldry, British and foreign , W. & A.K. Johnston, page 129:
(archaic) To lower physically or depress; to stoop; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.
To lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, so as to hurt feelings or cause pain; to depress; to humiliate; to humble; to degrade.
(obsolete) To lower in value, in particular as altering the content of alloys in coins.
As a noun abaisse
is a thin undercrust of pastry.As a verb abase is
(archaic) to lower physically or depress; to stoop; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye .abaisse
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Adjective
(-)- Or, a bend sable, on a chief of the first a pomeis charged with a cross gold; the whole abaissé under another chief of the arms of the Order of St. John, Gules a cross argent.
abase
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Verb
(abas)- "Saying so, he abased his lance''." - ''
- "Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased'' ." - ''Luke 14:11