Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bastardize"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the
child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful
wedlock. --Blackstone.
2. To beget out of wedlock. [R.] --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bastardize
v 1: change something so that its value declines; for example,
art forms [syn: {bastardise}]
2: declare a child to be illegitimate [syn: {bastardise}]
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