Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Embase

Embase , transitive verb

[Prefix em- + base, a. or transitive verb: compare Old French embaissier.]

To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate. [Obsolete]
Embased the valleys, and embossed the hills. — Sylvester
Alloy in coin of gold... may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. — Bacon
Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity. — South