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Definition of Debased
1. Adjective. Mixed with impurities.
2. Adjective. Lowered in value. "A debased currency"
3. Adjective. Ruined in character or quality.
Definition of Debased
1. a. Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.
Definition of Debased
1. Verb. (past of debase) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Debased
1. debase [v] - See also: debase
Lexicographical Neighbors of Debased
Literary usage of Debased
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"That Congress had debased the coinage one sixteenth would not establish the right
to further debase it; would, at most, indicate that the power to regulate ..."
2. Political Economy by Francis Amasa Walker (1888)
"debased Coin.—We now approach a question which should be decided entirely upon
the principles regulating the value of money already laid down, ..."
3. Political Economy by Francis Amasa Walker (1884)
"debased COIN : SEIGNIORAGE. 152. debased Coin.—We now approach a question which
should be decided entirely upon the principles regulating the value of money ..."
4. Letters Written in the Interior of Cuba: Between the Mountains of Arcana, to by Abiel Abbot (1829)
"Sincerely do I hope, that our national character will never be debased by the
toleration ... or debased natives shall attempt to introduce barbarous sports, ..."
5. Introduction to the Study of Economics by Charles Jesse Bullock (1908)
"debased Money. Gresham's Law. § 147. ... have often declared various gold and
silver coins to be full legal tender in payment of debased debts. ..."
6. Satan in society by Nicholas Francis Cooke, Physician (1873)
"Men not Reformed, but Women debased by the Ballot. a new and alarming element of
discord into the family circle, already weakened, weU-nigh ruined, ..."
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