disbase
English edit
Etymology edit
From dis- + base. Compare debase.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
disbase (third-person singular simple present disbases, present participle disbasing, simple past and past participle disbased)
- (transitive, obsolete) To debase or degrade.
- 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, [https://archive.org/details/poetasterorarrai00jons_0/page/n1
/mode/1up Act I, scene ii]:
- Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “disbase”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)