embase means To lower physically. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
verb
- To lower physically.“[God had] Embast the valleys, and embost the hills.”
- To bring down or lower in position, status, etc.; to degrade, humiliate.“And either vowd with all their power and witt
To let not others honour be defaste
Of friend or foe, who ever it embaste […]”
- 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.”