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Definition of Embase
1. v. t. To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate.
Definition of Embase
1. Verb. (obsolete) Physically to lower. ¹
2. Verb. (obsolete transitive) To bring down or lower in position, status, etc.; to degrade, humiliate. ¹
3. Verb. (obsolete) To lower the value of (a coin, commodity etc.); to debase (a coin) with alloy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Embase
1. to lower [v EMBASTE or EMBASED, EMBASING, EMBASES] - See also: lower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embase
| embarred embarring embars embase (current term) embased embases embaseth embasing |
Literary usage of Embase
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gulf War And Health by Institute of Medicine (2005)
"embase, based on the Excerpta Medica database, is produced by Elsevier Science
and indexes ... embase has more of an international focus than does MEDLINE. ..."
2. French-English Dictionary, with Explanatory Notes, of Terms and Expressions by William Edward Bayles (1918)
"embase — Enlargement or shoulder at the end of a shaft. ... La magnéto est fixée
sur son embase par une bride serrée par un boulon. L'assemblage des rais se ..."
3. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"... and must it not needs be the effect of a greater treason to embase the spirits
of his subjects, and to set a stamp and character of servitude upon them, ..."
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