Citations:debased

English citations of debased

Wiktionary had defined this as "reversed", Wikipedia as "abased" (borne lower than its usual placement), Pimbley as "turned over; inverted". From images (including at 108th Field Artillery Regiment), these mean abased:

• 1932, United States. National Guard Bureau, Official National Guard Register, page 930:

  108 FA [...] Shield : Per chevron debased azure and gules, two chevronels argent, upper charged with a plate fimbriated of the first between a lozenge of the third fimbriated of the fourth and a Maltese cross of the last; lower charged with s […]

  • 2010, Field Artillery, page 1045:

    108th FIELD ARTILLERY [...] HERALDIC ITEMS / COAT OF ARMS Shield : Per chevron debased azure and gules, two chevronels argent, upper charged with an annulet between a mascle and a cross patée all of the first, the lower charged with a keystone of the second […]

And this must be abased, as a fess cannot be "reversed" or "inverted"

• 1972, Mary Lee Stubbs, Stanley Russell Connor, United States. Dept. of the Army. Office of Military History, Armor-cavalry, page 226:

  172d ARMOR (First Vermont) Vermont HERALDIC ITEMS COAT OF ARMS Shield : Per fess debased azure (sky blue and lake blue) ... Crest : That for the regiments and separate battalions of the Vermont Army National Guard : On a wreath of the […]

• 1985, Air Defense Artillery, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 121:

  6th AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY HERALDIC ITEMS COAT OF ARMS Shield : Parti per pairle argent, gules and azure, in chief a mullet of five points of the second and in fess debased two fleurs-de-lis or. Crest : On a wreath of the colors […]