† embasev.

/ɛmˈbeɪs/

Forms: 1500s–1600s embace (1600s embass), imbace, imbase, 1600s– embase.

Etymology: < en- prefix¹ + French bas, base adj. (Old French had embaissier < late Latin type *imbassiāre, of equivalent formation.

Obsolete or archaic.

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a. To lower (physically).

b. To give a lower direction to.

ΚΠ

1595 E. Spenser Amoretti xiii, in Amoretti & Epithalamion sig. A8 And to the ground her eie lids low embaseth.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 92 When God..Embast the Valleys, and embost the Hills.

1647 N. Nye Art of Gunnery ii. 29 The Gunner..must..imbase the mouth [of his gun].

c. figurative.

ΚΠ

a1564 T. Becon Certain Articles Christian Relig. (1844) 433 At the Lord's table let us not embase ourselves to look upon the bread and cup that be there set forth.

1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 288 Embased the very Standard and distinguishing Rule of Good and Evil.

2. To lower in rank, dignity, office, condition, or character; to humble, humiliate; often with the sense of degrade, make base. Also reflexive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)]

anitherOE

fellOE

lowc1175

to lay lowc1225

to set adownc1275

snuba1340

meekc1350

depose1377

aneantizea1382

to bring lowa1387

declinea1400

meekenc1400

to pull downc1425

avalec1430

to-gradea1440

to put downc1440

humble1484

alow1494

deject?1521

depress1526

plucka1529

to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533

to bring down1535

to bring basec1540

adbass1548

diminish1560

afflict1561

to take down1562

to throw down1567

debase1569

embase1571

diminute1575

to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576

exinanite1577

to take (a person) a peg lower1589

to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589

disbasea1592

to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592

comb-cut1593

unpuff1598

atterr1605

dismount1608

annihilate1610

crest-fall1611

demit1611

pulla1616

avilea1617

to put a scorn on, upon1633

mortify1639

dimit1658

to put a person's pipe out1720

to let down1747

to set down1753

humiliate1757

to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789

start1821

squabash1822

to wipe a person's eye1823

to crop the feathers of1827

embarrass1839

to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864

to sit upon ——1864

squelch1864

to cut out of all feather1865

to sit on ——1868

to turn down1870

to score off1882

to do (a person) in the eye1891

puncture1908

to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908

to cut down to size1927

flatten1932

to slap (a person) down1938

punk1963

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxiii. 1) Disdeyneth not to embace himself..for our sake.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxiv. 417 To violate or imbace the thing that was hild to be so holy.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion ix. 137 With the tearme of Welsh, the English now embase The nobler Britains name.

a1639 H. Wotton Short View Life Duke of Buckingham (1642) 2 No..ignoble end..which may..embase the freedome of my poore judgment.

1737 L. Clarke Compl. Hist. Bible I. ii. 131 Continual Servitude of Body imbased their Spirits.

1820 L. Hunt Indicator No 64 (1822) II. 96 It is pure self-revolving selfishness that ‘embases and embrutes’.

1844 R. M. Milnes Memorials of Many Scenes (new ed.) 130 And would my spirit from earth's embasing rule Were in this moment riven.

3. To lower (coin or commodities) in price or value. transferred and figurative. To take away the value of, depreciate, discredit, undervalue.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)]

forhowc900

overhowOE

withhuheOE

forhecchec1230

scorna1275

despise1297

spise13..

to set at a pease, at a pie's heel, at a pin's fee1303

to hold, have scorn at, ofc1320

to think scorn ofc1320

to set short by1377

to tell short of1377

to set naught or nought (nothing, not anything) by1390

spitea1400

contemnc1425

nought1440

overlooka1450

mainprizec1450

lightly1451

vilipendc1470

indeign1483

misprize1483

dain?1518

to look down on (also upon)1539

floccipend1548

contempta1555

to take scorn ata1566

embase1577

sdeign1590

disesteem1594

vilify1599

to set lightly, coldly1604

disrepute1611

to hold cheapa1616

avile1616

floccify1623

meprize1633

to think (also believe, etc.) meanly of1642

publican1648

naucify1653

disesteem1659

invalue1673

to set light, at light1718

sneeze1806

sniff1837

derry1896

to hold no brief for1918

society > trade and finance > monetary value > be valued at [verb (transitive)] > diminish value of

fall1564

embase1577

to pull down1607

impoverish1611

depreciate1656

to let down1870

slip1961

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > misjudge [verb (transitive)] > underestimate or undervalue

to make much (also little, nothing, too much, etc.) of (or on)c1395

disprize1480

misprize1483

to make light of1526

extenuate1529

to make the worst ofc1530

seclude?1531

to take (also wrest) to the worst1531

deprisec1550

disparagea1556

undermatch1571

embase1577

underbid1593

underprize1600

underpoise1602

undervalue1611

minorize1615

underspeak1635

underthink1646

underrate1650

minify1676

under-measure1682

underpraise1698

sneeze1806

understate1824

disappreciate1828

under-estimatea1850

minimize1866

to play down1869

worsen1885

to sell short1936

downplay1948

underplay1949

lowball1979

minimalize1979

society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (transitive)] > lower (price) > lower price of

to call down?1542

embase1577

lower?1662

sinka1684

settle1812

cheapen1833

to mark down1859

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1814/2 The Teston coyned for twelue pens, and in the reigne of King Edwarde embased by Proclamation to sixe pens.

1595 W. Allen et al. Conf. Next Succession Crowne of Ingland i. v. 120 That no man may think we meane to imbase that which we esteme in so high degree.

1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 41 This is to vilipend greatnesse, or to embase noblenesse.

1668 J. Child Brief Observ. Trade 28 As the high rate of Usury doth imbase Land.

1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 180 A Temper of Mind, which will certainly embase and discommend all our Services.

a. To debase (coin) by a mixture of alloy; literal and figurative. Said also of the alloy.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > value of money > [verb (transitive)] > reduce value

lowa1513

embase1551

falsify1562

deprave1581

delay1586

debase1602

descry1602

decry1617

depreciate1656

discredit1721

devalue1918

devalorize1925

1551 [implied in: R. Robinson tr. T. More Utopia (1895) 59 (margin) Enhauncynge and imbasyng of coyne. (at embasing n.)].

1594 W. West Symbolæogr.: 2nd Pt. ii. §216 Embase, shave, file, clippe, wast or empaire the currant coin.

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xviii. sig. L5 It will imbase euen the purest metall in Man.

1679 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation (1865) I. 16 To raise money, not by embasing the coin, but by embasing the Christian religion.

1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome 314 He embased the current coin.

1752 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. III. 242 As to the embasing of the coin.

b. transferred and figurative. To take away the excellence of; to corrupt, impair, vitiate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > affect detrimentally

atterc885

hurtc1200

marc1225

appair1297

impair1297

spilla1300

emblemishc1384

endull1395

blemishc1430

depaira1460

depravea1533

deform1533

envenom1533

vitiate1534

quail1551

impeach1563

subvert1565

craze1573

taint1573

spoil1578

endamage1579

qualify1584

stain1584

crack1590

ravish1594

interess1598

invitiate1598

corrupt1602

venom1621

depauperate1623

detriment1623

flaw1623

embase1625

ungold1637

murder1644

refract1646

depress1647

addle1652

sweal1655

butcher1659

shade1813

mess1823

puckeroo1840

untone1861

blue1880

queer1884

dick1972

forgar-

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 54 Wanton love Corrupteth, and Imbaseth it.

a1626 F. Bacon Sylva Sylvarum (1627) §575 The Vertue of the Seed..in a Tree..is embased by the Ground, to which it is removed.

1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 149 Severed from that soile and drosse which embased it.

1665 R. South Serm. preached before Court 39 A Pleasure, embased with no appendant sting.

1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God I. ix. 225 Those Vanitys..Embase my Nature.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	embase
释义	† embasev. /ɛmˈbeɪs/ Forms: 1500s–1600s embace (1600s embass), imbace, imbase, 1600s– embase. Etymology: < en- prefix¹ + French bas, base adj. (Old French had embaissier < late Latin type imbassiāre, of equivalent formation. Obsolete* or archaic. 1. Thesaurus » Categories » a. To lower (physically). b. To give a lower direction to. ΚΠ 1595 E. Spenser Amoretti xiii, in Amoretti & Epithalamion sig. A8 And to the ground her eie lids low embaseth. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 92 When God..Embast the Valleys, and embost the Hills. 1647 N. Nye Art of Gunnery ii. 29 The Gunner..must..imbase the mouth [of his gun]. c. figurative. ΚΠ a1564 T. Becon Certain Articles Christian Relig. (1844) 433 At the Lord's table let us not embase ourselves to look upon the bread and cup that be there set forth. 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 288 Embased the very Standard and distinguishing Rule of Good and Evil. 2. To lower in rank, dignity, office, condition, or character; to humble, humiliate; often with the sense of degrade, make base. Also reflexive. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] anitherOE fellOE lowc1175 to lay lowc1225 to set adownc1275 snuba1340 meekc1350 depose1377 aneantizea1382 to bring lowa1387 declinea1400 meekenc1400 to pull downc1425 avalec1430 to-gradea1440 to put downc1440 humble1484 alow1494 deject?1521 depress1526 plucka1529 to cut (rarely to cast down) the comb of?1533 to bring down1535 to bring basec1540 adbass1548 diminish1560 afflict1561 to take down1562 to throw down1567 debase1569 embase1571 diminute1575 to put (also thrust) a person's nose out of jointc1576 exinanite1577 to take (a person) a peg lower1589 to take (a person) down a peg (or two)1589 disbasea1592 to take (a person) down a buttonhole (or two)1592 comb-cut1593 unpuff1598 atterr1605 dismount1608 annihilate1610 crest-fall1611 demit1611 pulla1616 avilea1617 to put a scorn on, upon1633 mortify1639 dimit1658 to put a person's pipe out1720 to let down1747 to set down1753 humiliate1757 to draw (a person's) eyeteeth1789 start1821 squabash1822 to wipe a person's eye1823 to crop the feathers of1827 embarrass1839 to knock (also take, etc.) (a person) off his or her perch1864 to sit upon ——1864 squelch1864 to cut out of all feather1865 to sit on ——1868 to turn down1870 to score off1882 to do (a person) in the eye1891 puncture1908 to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908 to cut down to size1927 flatten1932 to slap (a person) down1938 punk1963 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxiii. 1) Disdeyneth not to embace himself..for our sake. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxiv. 417 To violate or imbace the thing that was hild to be so holy. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion ix. 137 With the tearme of Welsh, the English now embase The nobler Britains name. a1639 H. Wotton Short View Life Duke of Buckingham (1642) 2 No..ignoble end..which may..embase the freedome of my poore judgment. 1737 L. Clarke Compl. Hist. Bible I. ii. 131 Continual Servitude of Body imbased their Spirits. 1820 L. Hunt Indicator No 64 (1822) II. 96 It is pure self-revolving selfishness that ‘embases and embrutes’. 1844 R. M. Milnes Memorials of Many Scenes (new ed.) 130 And would my spirit from earth's embasing rule Were in this moment riven. 3. To lower (coin or commodities) in price or value. transferred and figurative. To take away the value of, depreciate, discredit, undervalue. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] forhowc900 overhowOE withhuheOE forhecchec1230 scorna1275 despise1297 spise13.. to set at a pease, at a pie's heel, at a pin's fee1303 to hold, have scorn at, ofc1320 to think scorn ofc1320 to set short by1377 to tell short of1377 to set naught or nought (nothing, not anything) by1390 spitea1400 contemnc1425 nought1440 overlooka1450 mainprizec1450 lightly1451 vilipendc1470 indeign1483 misprize1483 dain?1518 to look down on (also upon)1539 floccipend1548 contempta1555 to take scorn ata1566 embase1577 sdeign1590 disesteem1594 vilify1599 to set lightly, coldly1604 disrepute1611 to hold cheapa1616 avile1616 floccify1623 meprize1633 to think (also believe, etc.) meanly of1642 publican1648 naucify1653 disesteem1659 invalue1673 to set light, at light1718 sneeze1806 sniff1837 derry1896 to hold no brief for1918 society > trade and finance > monetary value > be valued at [verb (transitive)] > diminish value of fall1564 embase1577 to pull down1607 impoverish1611 depreciate1656 to let down1870 slip1961 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > misjudge [verb (transitive)] > underestimate or undervalue to make much (also little, nothing, too much, etc.) of (or on)c1395 disprize1480 misprize1483 to make light of1526 extenuate1529 to make the worst ofc1530 seclude?1531 to take (also wrest) to the worst1531 deprisec1550 disparagea1556 undermatch1571 embase1577 underbid1593 underprize1600 underpoise1602 undervalue1611 minorize1615 underspeak1635 underthink1646 underrate1650 minify1676 under-measure1682 underpraise1698 sneeze1806 understate1824 disappreciate1828 under-estimatea1850 minimize1866 to play down1869 worsen1885 to sell short1936 downplay1948 underplay1949 lowball1979 minimalize1979 society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (transitive)] > lower (price) > lower price of to call down?1542 embase1577 lower?1662 sinka1684 settle1812 cheapen1833 to mark down1859 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1814/2 The Teston coyned for twelue pens, and in the reigne of King Edwarde embased by Proclamation to sixe pens. 1595 W. Allen et al. Conf. Next Succession Crowne of Ingland i. v. 120 That no man may think we meane to imbase that which we esteme in so high degree. 1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 41 This is to vilipend greatnesse, or to embase noblenesse. 1668 J. Child Brief Observ. Trade 28 As the high rate of Usury doth imbase Land. 1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 180 A Temper of Mind, which will certainly embase and discommend all our Services. 4. a. To debase (coin) by a mixture of alloy; literal and figurative. Said also of the alloy. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > value of money > [verb (transitive)] > reduce value lowa1513 embase1551 falsify1562 deprave1581 delay1586 debase1602 descry1602 decry1617 depreciate1656 discredit1721 devalue1918 devalorize1925 1551 [implied in: R. Robinson tr. T. More Utopia (1895) 59 (margin) Enhauncynge and imbasyng of coyne. (at embasing n.)]. 1594 W. West Symbolæogr.: 2nd Pt. ii. §216 Embase, shave, file, clippe, wast or empaire the currant coin. 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xviii. sig. L5 It will imbase euen the purest metall in Man. 1679 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation (1865) I. 16 To raise money, not by embasing the coin, but by embasing the Christian religion. 1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome 314 He embased the current coin. 1752 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. III. 242 As to the embasing of the coin. b. transferred and figurative. To take away the excellence of; to corrupt, impair, vitiate. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > affect detrimentally atterc885 hurtc1200 marc1225 appair1297 impair1297 spilla1300 emblemishc1384 endull1395 blemishc1430 depaira1460 depravea1533 deform1533 envenom1533 vitiate1534 quail1551 impeach1563 subvert1565 craze1573 taint1573 spoil1578 endamage1579 qualify1584 stain1584 crack1590 ravish1594 interess1598 invitiate1598 corrupt1602 venom1621 depauperate1623 detriment1623 flaw1623 embase1625 ungold1637 murder1644 refract1646 depress1647 addle1652 sweal1655 butcher1659 shade1813 mess1823 puckeroo1840 untone1861 blue1880 queer1884 dick1972 forgar- 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 54 Wanton love Corrupteth, and Imbaseth it. a1626 F. Bacon Sylva Sylvarum (1627) §575 The Vertue of the Seed..in a Tree..is embased by the Ground, to which it is removed. 1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 149 Severed from that soile and drosse which embased it. 1665 R. South Serm. preached before Court 39 A Pleasure, embased with no appendant sting. 1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God I. ix. 225 Those Vanitys..Embase my Nature. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1551
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