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Embale vs Embase - What's the difference?

embale | embase |

In obsolete|transitive|lang=en terms the difference between embale and embase

is that embale is (obsolete|transitive) to bind up; to enclose while embase is (obsolete|transitive) to bring down or lower in position, status, etc; to degrade, humiliate.

As verbs the difference between embale and embase

is that embale is (obsolete|transitive) to make up into a bale or pack while embase is (obsolete) physically to lower.

embale

English

Verb

(embal)
  • (obsolete) To make up into a bale or pack.
    • (Johnson)
  • (obsolete) To bind up; to enclose.
  • * Spenser
    • Legs embaled in golden buskins.
    (Webster 1913) ----

    embase

    English

    Verb

    (embas)
  • (obsolete) Physically to lower.
    • Embased the valleys, and embossed the hills. — Sylvester.
  • (obsolete) To bring down or lower in position, status, etc.; to degrade, humiliate.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
  • *: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. — South.
  • (obsolete) To lower the value of (a coin, commodity etc.); to debase (a coin) with alloy.
    • Alloy in coin of gold may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. — Francis Bacon.