Embase /(?)/

Em·base

Embase

v. t.
  1. To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate. [Obs.]
    Embased the valleys, and embossed the hills.
    — Sylvester.
    Alloy in coin of gold . . . may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it.
    Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity.