a. [f. BASE a. 9, 16.] Having a base mind; = BASE a. 9. Hence Base-mindedly = BASELY 4; Base-mindedness = BASENESS 4.
1586. Q. Eliz., in Ellis, Orig. Lett., I. 225, III. 23. I am not so baceminded that feare of any livinge prince shoulde make me afrayde.
1614. Selden, Titles Hon., 62. Base-minded Jewes, with acclamations, affirmed Herod Agrippa a Deitie.
1792. Chron., in Ann. Reg., 4/1. To deter base-minded persons from such shocking enormities.
b. 1599. Sandys, Europæ Spec. (1632), 160. A timorous base mindednesse and abjectnesse.
1627. Bp. Hall, Heav. vpon Earth, iv. 76. To whom repentance seemes base-mindednesse.