different between embase vs imbase

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?be?s/

Verb

imbase (third-person singular simple present imbases, present participle imbasing, simple past and past participle imbased)

1. Obsolete spelling of embase (“to lower”)
   • 1659, John Hales, Golden Remains of the Ever Memorable Mr. John Hales

     by ambitiously heaping up the conceits and authorities of other men, increase much in the bulk, but do as much imbase in true value

References

imbase in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• I-beams, Mabies, abimes, ambies