disbase
English
Etymology
From dis- + base. Compare debase.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɪsˈbeɪs/
Verb
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, Act I, scene ii:
- Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbas'd myself.
References
- “disbase”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.