Embase

Origin

From - + base. Compare Old French embaissier.

Full definition of embase

Verb

1. (obsolete) Physically to lower.Embased the valleys, and embossed the hills. — Sylvester.
2. (obsolete, 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 ....
3. Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity. — South.
4. (obsolete) To lower the value of (a coin, commodity etc.); to debase (a coin) with alloy.Alloy in coin of gold ... may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. — Francis Bacon.