different between embase vs embased

English

Alternative forms

• imbase (obsolete)

Etymology

From em- +? base. Compare Old French embaissier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?be?s/

Verb

embase (third-person singular simple present embases, present participle embasing, simple past and past participle embased)

1. (obsolete) Physically to lower.
   • 1608, Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas his divine weekes and workes

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

2. (archaic, transitive) 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.

3. (archaic) To lower the value of (a coin, commodity etc.); to debase (a coin) with alloy.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Truth

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

Anagrams

• Beames, Mabees, bamsee, beames

Portuguese

Verb

embase

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of embasar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of embasar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of embasar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of embasar

Spanish

Verb

embase

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of embasarse.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of embasarse.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of embasarse.

English

Verb

embased

1. simple past tense and past participle of embase