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Embased vs Embayed - What's the difference?

embased | embayed |

As verbs the difference between embased and embayed

is that embased is (embase) while embayed is (embay).

As an adjective embayed is

enclosed in (or as though in) a bay; harboured.

embased

English

Verb

(head)
  • (embase)

    • 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.

    embayed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (embay)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Enclosed in (or as though in) a bay; harboured.
  • * 1661 , John Donne, "Elegie XVIII":
    • Yet ere thou be where thou would'st be embay'd , / Thou shalt upon another Forest set [...].
  • Of water: formed into a bay or bays.