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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
embase .
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And if thou esteemest that thy blood by meddling with mine shall be stained or embased, consider how few noble houses, or rather none at all, are there in the world which have not run the same way, and that the womans side is not essentially requisite for the illustrating of noble descents.
The Fourth Book. IX. Which Treats of Many Rare Successes Befallen in the Inn 1909
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We are to consider the world absolutely in itself; and so we shall find the most valued enjoyments of it embased by these two qualifications.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823
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How the dispensers of religion, the ministers of the word, are embased or rendered vile.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
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A pleasure, high, rational, and angelical; a pleasure embased with no appendant sting, no consequent loathing, no remorses or bitter farewells: but such an. one, as being honey in the mouth, never turns to gall or gravel in the belly.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
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Let them view Adam tumbled out of paradise, embased in his nature, and cursed in his actions, with a perpetual toil and misery entailed upon his descending posterity.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823
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So insufferably have these impostors poisoned the fountains of morality, perverted and embased the very standard and distinguishing rule of good and evil.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823
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I blesse my lot, that was so lucky placed: but then the more your owne mishap I rew, that are so much by so meane loue embased.
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To which calendar of doubts or problems I advise be annexed another calendar, as much or more material which is a calendar of popular errors: I mean chiefly in natural history, such as pass in speech and conceit, and are nevertheless apparently detected and convicted of untruth, that man's knowledge be not weakened nor embased by such dross and vanity.
The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593
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Pfizer: the world#39s largest research-embased / e based business home home opportunit work
Business News and Business Products, Services, Reports and Advertising. Business News RSS Feed. 2008
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Pfizer: the world#39s largest research-embased / e based business home home opportunit work
Business News and Business Products, Services, Reports and Advertising. Business News RSS Feed. 2008
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