embase — English Dictionary

Verb

1. To lower physically.

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Transitive

   Examples

   [God had] Embast the valleys, and embost the hills.

2. To bring down or lower in position, status, etc.; to degrade, humiliate.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Transitive

   Synonyms

   debasehumblerelegate

   Examples

   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.

3. To lower the value of (a coin, commodity etc.); to debase (a coin) with alloy.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Transitive

   Synonyms

   abasealloysophisticate

   Examples

   Alloy in coin of gold […] may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.