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Definition of Baser
1. base [adj] - See also: base
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baser
Literary usage of Baser
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"A proven warrior donn'da proven mail, But gave the baser arms to baser man.
So girt in dazzling brass, they rallying went, 440 Whom great Poseidon led, ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1865)
"Let those who believe that the hope of transmuting the baser metals into gold
expired with the last century, shrinking from the glare of light which in this ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... and debating power, patriotism, and public virtue, Grattan, Plunket, and Bushe,
Foster. Fitzgerald, Ponsonby, and Moore, a were the baser elements in ..."
4. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1857)
"Nor did they rest with their mistaken piety, but made it stoop unto their baser
flattery, calling those men their Sa- 31 Jupiter, the chief of them, ..."
5. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"The very vices, however, which the Royalists acknowledged having been led to
cultivate by their "pride, poverty, and passion " were imitated by the baser ..."
6. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"Draw out the baser streams the springs annoying. The delfa would be so flo« n
with waters, thai no gins or ..."
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