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Embase vs Imbase - What's the difference?

embase | imbase |

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

is that embase is (obsolete) to lower the value of (a coin, commodity etc); to debase (a coin) with alloy while imbase is (obsolete) to diminish in value.

As verbs the difference between embase and imbase

is that embase is (obsolete) physically to lower while imbase is (obsolete) to diminish in value.

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.

    imbase

    English

    Verb

    (imbas)
  • (obsolete) To diminish in value.
    • (Hales)
    (Webster 1913)