Embase vs Embased - What's the difference?
embase | embased |
(obsolete) Physically to lower.
(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 [...].
(obsolete) To lower the value of (a coin, commodity etc.); to debase (a coin) with alloy.
(embase)
(obsolete) Physically to lower.
(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 [...].
(obsolete) To lower the value of (a coin, commodity etc.); to debase (a coin) with alloy.
As verbs the difference between embase and embased
is that embase is physically to lower while embased is past tense of embase.embase
English
Verb
(embas)- Embased the valleys, and embossed the hills. — Sylvester.
- Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity. — South.
- Alloy in coin of gold may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. — Francis Bacon.
embased
English
Verb
(head)embase
English
Verb
(embas)- Embased the valleys, and embossed the hills. — Sylvester.
- Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity. — South.
- Alloy in coin of gold may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. — Francis Bacon.