ppl. a. Obs. [f. prec. + -ED.] = ABASED, DEBASED, in various senses.

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1601–2.  Fulbecke, 1st Pt. Parall., 54 a–b. The debtor may pay the det in the coin embased.

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1627.  Speed, England Abr., vi. § 4. An earthen Pot hoarded with store of Roman Coines—stamped vpon imbased siluer.

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1647.  N. Bacon, Hist. Disc., xxii. 63. This was a trick of imbased times.

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1649.  Milton, Eikon., vi. (Bohn), 367. An imbased flexibleness to the … contrary dictates of any factions.

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