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Imbased vs Embased - What's the difference?

imbased | embased |

As verbs the difference between imbased and embased

is that imbased is past tense of imbase while embased is past tense of embase.

imbased

English

Verb

(head)
  • (imbase)

    • imbase

    English

    Verb

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

    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.