Debarment

Exclusion; a shutting out. Debase', v. a. [ de, and base, low, mean, vile.] To lower; to sink; to cast down; to reduce; to depre ; to abase; to degrade; to adulterate; to vitiate; as, to debase money, to debase the mind by cruelty or mean ne . who regarded D. as the twin-brother of sleep. The consequences of D. first become apparent in the organs of sense and motion; the eye loses its brightne , and the flesh its elasticity; the muscles become stiff, and coldne and palene spread over the whole body. Yet it is often a very difficult matter to distinguish between real and apparent D. The most reliable test is afforded by the condition of the muscular substance; for after real D. this gradually loses its irritability, so that it can be no longer excited to contraction by any kind of stimulation; and this lo of irritability is succeeded by! -State of being debased; abasement; degradation. the appearance of cadaveric rigidity. The most satis- Debas'er, n . He who, or that which debases, degrades, factory proof, however, is given by the occurrence of or vitiates. "It is a kind of taking God's name in vain, to debase religion with such frivolous disputes."- Hooker.