simple past and past participle of debase
Brought low; degraded.
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.
Abased, abaissé: (of a charge) borne lower than usual.
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