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Definition of Imbasing
1. imbase [v] - See also: imbase
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imbasing
Literary usage of Imbasing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historia Placitorum Coronae: The History of the Pleas of the Crown by Matthew Hale, Sollom Emlyn (1847)
"(i) It is true, that the imbasing of money in point of allay hath not been very
usually practised in England, and it would be a dishonour to the nation, ..."
2. Epitome of the Laws of Nova-Scotia by Beamish Murdoch (1833)
"Counterfeiting, or impairing, diminishing or " imbasing any foreign coins, current
in the province, " by washing, clipping, rounding, filing, or scaling of ..."
3. Irish Equity Reports by Ireland High Court of Chancery, Ireland, Ireland Rolls Court, Rolls Court, High Court of Chancery (1839)
"It is an enhancing of coin, in respect of the extrinsic value or deno- "mination,
but an imbasing in regard of the intrinsic value ; as, for in- - stance, ..."
4. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1918)
"... and until one knows in full great a shewe of imperfection in his person for
advancement, and his owne imbasing and despising, to worke the meanes and to ..."
5. The Growth of English Industry and Commerce by William Cunningham (1907)
"... their armes and measures in their hands, and sold the same by Arsine, a measure
of that Countrey, to the great imbasing of that excellent Commoditie, ..."
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