单词 | abastardize |
释义 | † abastardize, -ise, v. ? Obs.|əˈbɑːstədaɪz, -æ-| [f. Fr. abastard-ir, -iss-ant: see prec. The term. -ise representing the -iss- of the extended stem in Fr. has been refashioned after vbs. in -ize. Cf. amortize.] To render bastard, spurious, or degenerate; to debase, or deteriorate.
1580Hollyband Treas. French Tong., Abastardir..to corrupt, or abastardise, to counterfait. 1605Daniel Queen's Arcadia v. iv. (Wks. 1717) I. 224 And being our selves Corrupted, and abastardized thus. 1610Donne Sermon xcvi. IV. 258 An insinuating of false and adulterous blood, in abastardizing a race, by supposititious children. 1653Bulwer Artificiall Changeling (quoting Donne) Doe not abastardise that noble kind, that noble nature, that God hath imparted to thee. |

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