To what is it applied when debased, impure, spurious, alloyed, counterfeit could be used?

The words of the preacher had equally debased all women.

"We believe that he will not succeed; but should it thus fall out, we Germans will defend not only our land and ourselves; but, in this war which has been forced upon us in the basest manner possible, we shall defend the civilization of the world, the culture of the earth, against debased 'unculture' and the spreading roots of decay.

Under a government which the community by and by saw was conducted in their interest, smuggling began to lose its respectability and to grow disreputable, hazardous, and debased.

Is there a creature so debased, Would not for freedom die?

He was evidently raised up for a remarkable and exalted mission,not only to deliver a debased and superstitious people from bondage, but to impress his mind and character upon them and upon all other nations, and to link his name with the progress of the human race.

It was always a contradiction,lofty while degraded, seeking to comprehend the profoundest mysteries, yet debased by puerile superstitions.

But the government exercised by the Norman princes had wound up the royal power to so high a pitch, and so much beyond the usual tenour of the feudal constitutions, that it still behoved him to be debased by new affronts and disgraces, ere his barons could entertain the view of conspiring against him, in order to retrench his prerogatives.

These remain unaffected, whether the human organism is exalted or debased.

Instead of being the most debased of human creatures, many of them, in physical strength and courage, in their iron work, carving, weaving, and other arts, are among the most advanced of African tribes.

In such esteem it continued for many ages, till at length Mesue and some other Arabians began to reject and reprehend it, upon whose authority for many following lustres, it was much debased and quite out of request, held to be poison and no medicine; and is still oppugned to this day by Crato and some junior physicians.

Never was a sublime passage more debased than by this rendering of [Greek: en] by 'at', instead of 'in';'at' the 'phenomenon', instead of 'in' the 'noumenon'.

Benefits are allayed by reproaches, and gratitude debased by envy.

"It is not enough to debase them; they must be so stupefied that they wish to be debased.

The most obvious risk is from the counterfeiter,not from the vulgar shams distributed so widely over the world from the well-known manufactories of paintings in France, England, and other parts, which can deceive only the most ignorant or credulous, but from talent itself debased to forgery and trickery.

The debased, Oriental conception of marriage had corrupted the atmosphere of the home.

It appealed powerfully to their intellectual, social, and aesthetic sense, and, in the debased form that it assumed in the East, to their passions.

At the beginning of the second century B.C. the Judean state was closely encircled by a ring of Hellenic cities and subjected on every side to the seductions of that debased Greek culture which had taken firm root in the soil of Palestine.

Romeo and Juliet are not poetical beings placed on a prosaic background; nor are they, like Thekla and Max in the Wallenstein, two angels of light amid the darkest and harshest, the most debased and revolting aspects of humanity; but every circumstance, and every personage, and every shade of character in each, tends to the developement of the sentiment which is the subject of the drama.

In his Eloges of illustrious men, delivered in his capacity of perpetual secretary of the Academy of Sciences, he always displays the utmost impartiality and love of truth; he never debased the dignity of science by any love of intrigue, and displayed the utmost disinterestedness in his efforts to promote science.

There is none so debased as not to retain glimmerings of the bright spirit that is associated with the grosser particles of their material nature, Clinch had in him the living consciousness that he was capable of better things, and he endured moments of deep anguishas the image of the patient, self-devoting, and constant Jane rose before his mind's eye to reproach him with his weaknesses.

In its place came a revival of the Louis Quinze scrolls and curves, but with less character and restraint, until the style we know as "baroque," or debased "rococo," came in.

It is a poor little building, with a debased tower; but preserves one or two remnants of Norm.

The church is a disappointing building standing well back from the village street, mainly Perp., with a rather poor Dec. chancel; and is made still more depressing by the addition of a very debased modern N. aisle.

Its church, of "debased" character, is of no interest.