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To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. [Archaic] Bacon. Saying so, he abased his lance. Shelton.

Lowered; humbled.

Abjectly; downcastly.

The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.

He who, or that which, abases.

A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone.

Same as Tetrahedrite.

Humbled by consciousness of inferiority, unworthiness, guilt, or shame.

Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame.

x, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) French à (L. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Greek insep. prefix a without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to E. un-.

To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase. [Obs.] Donne.

A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible Hooker.

The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. Grew.

To bring low; to abase. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate. [Obs.] Want makes us know the price of what we avile. B. Jonson.

To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower. [Obs.] If any . . . based his pike. Sir T. North.

er to danger of upsetting. -- To bring down. (a) To cause to come down. (b) To humble or abase; as, to bring down high looks. -- To bring down the house, to cause tremendous applause. [Colloq.] -- To bring forth. (a) To produce, as young fruit. (b) To bring to light; to make manifest. -- To bring forward (a) To exhi…

grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words. The coin which was adulterated and debased. Hale. It is a kind of taking God's name in vain to debase religion with suc…

haracter, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement. The . . . degradation of a needy man of letters. Macaulay. Deplorable is the degradation of our nature. South. Moments there frequently must be, when a sidegradation of his state. Blair.

To bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.