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Definition of Embases
1. embase [v] - See also: embase
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embases
| embarred embarring embars embase embased embases (current term) embaseth embasing |
Literary usage of Embases
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elizabethan Sonnets by Sidney Lee (1904)
"At thy fair hands who wonders not at all, Wonder itself through ignorance embases ?
Yet natheless though wondrous gifts you call these, My faith is far more ..."
2. Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to Shirley by William Minto (1891)
"From such sweet arms who would not wish embraces? At thy fair hands who wonders
not at all, Wonder itself through ignorance embases. ..."
3. The Cambridge Platonists: Being Selections from the Writings of Benjamin by Benjamin Whichcote, John Smith, Nathanael Culverwel (1901)
"There is nothing that so embases and enthralls the Souls of men, as the dismall
and dreadfull thoughts of their own Mortality, which will not suffer them to ..."
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