embaseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From em- +‎ base. Compare Old French embaissier.

発音

• IPA: /ɪmˈbeɪs/

動詞

embase (third-person singular simple present embases, present participle embasing, simple past and past participle embased)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To lower physically.
   • 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:

     [God had] Embast the valleys, and embost the hills.

2. (archaic, transitive) To bring down or lower in position, status, etc.; to degrade, humiliate.

   Synonyms: debase, humble, relegate; see also Thesaurus:demean

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And either vowd with all their power and witt
     To let not others honour be defaste
     Of friend or foe, who ever it embaste […]

   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

     Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity.

3. (archaic, transitive) To lower the value of (a coin, commodity etc.); to debase (a coin) with alloy.

   Synonyms: abase, alloy, sophisticate; see also Thesaurus:adulterate

   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Truth”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

     Alloy in coin of gold […] may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.

派生語

アナグラム

• Beames, Mabees, bamsee, beames