| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Abase.[Websters]
2. To have demolished, smashed, liquidated, demeaned or degraded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To be debased or garbled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have drooped, descended or dwindled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To be revamped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have killed or dismounted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To be abbreviated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have soothed or calmed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To be vexed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be inflected or revised.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb abase.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (abase) | 1. Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of.[Wordnet]. 2. Base verb from the following inflections: abasing, abased, abases, abaser, abasers, abasingly and abasedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Lowered; humbled.[Websters]
2. Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield.[Websters] 3. Being debased or garbled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being abbreviated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being vexed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being humiliating or degrading. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being slavish. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being dependent. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being corrupt. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Being inflected or revised.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "ABASED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Etymology:Abased \A*based"\ ([.a]*b[=a]st"), adjective. 1. Lowered; humbled. 2. (Her.) [French abaiss['e].]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ABASED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Reduced to a low state, humbled, degraded. In heraldry, it is used of the wings of eagles, when the tops are turned downwards towards the point of the shield; or when the wings are shut, the natural way of bearing them being spread, with the top pointing to the chief of the angle.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Adjective] (heraldry) Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield. (references) | 2: [Adjective] Lowered; humbled. (references) | 3: [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of abase. (references) |
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