Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bastardize \Bas"tard*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bastardized}
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bastardizing}.]
1. To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a
bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
[1913 Webster]
The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the
child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful
wedlock. --Blackstone.
[1913 Webster]
2. To beget out of wedlock. [R.] --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
3. to change something (for example, art forms) so that its
value declines; to debase.
Syn: bastardise.
[WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bastardize
v 1: change something so that its value declines; for example,
art forms [syn: {bastardize}, {bastardise}]
2: declare a child to be illegitimate [syn: {bastardize},
{bastardise}]
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