imbase

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imbase (third-person singular simple present imbases, present participle imbasing, simple past and past participle imbased)

  1. Obsolete spelling of embase (to lower)
    • 1659, John Hales, Golden Remains of the Ever Memorable Mr. John Hales:
      by ambitiously heaping up the conceits and authorities of other men, increase much in the bulk, but do as much imbase in true value

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imbase”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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