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mongrelize, v.|ˈmʌŋgrəlaɪz|
[f. mongrel n. + -ize.]
trans. To make mongrel in race, composition, or character.
1629Maxwell tr. Herodian (1635) 256 It was not fit that either of their Races should be Mungreliz'd in that manner. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. iv. 99 How..comes it that such a vast number of the seedlings are mongrelized? 1871Galton in Proc. Roy. Soc. XIX. 396 The breed of rabbits which I endeavoured to mongrelize was the ‘Silver-Grey’. 1890[see mongrel a. 1].
Hence mongreliˈzation.
1889H. Campbell Caus. Dis. x. 76 Hybridization or mongrelization of disease. |