Debased

Quick meaning: Debased is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of debase.

Meaning

simple past and past participle of debase.

More Meanings

1. Brought low; degraded.
2. (heraldry) Abased, abaissé: (of a charge) borne lower than usual.

Example Sentences

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8), Azure, a thistle ensigned with an Imperial Crown, all proper; and its use is pretty frequent in the somewhat debased heraldry of the close of the last century and the beginning of the present.

58,) and also a new crest, viz. upon a wreath argent and vert, a demi-dragon erased gules P, gorged about the loins with a ducal coronet ... 59,) are an admirable specimen of the complex and debased heraldry of the day. 1515.

DEBASED HERALDRY. Of debased heraldry there is no lack of examples, and a few are ancient. Thomas de Insula, bishop of Ely (1345-61), bore gules, three bezants, on each a crowned king, robed sable, doubled ermine, sustaining[…]

Synonyms for debased

Depending on context, synonyms include low, corrupt, vitiated, degraded, adulterate, adulterated.

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