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† ˈbastardly, a. Obs.
Also 6 basterlie, basterdly, 6–7 bastardlye.
[f. bastard n. + -ly1.]
1. Of bastard sort: mongrel, base-born.
1552Huloet, Bastardlye, as not after the ryght sort begotten, spurius. 1555Bale in Strype Eccl. Mem. III. App. xxxix. 108 Our unnatural and bastardly brethren. 1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinsh. II. 141/1 His sonnes, that basterlie brood. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. i. 55 Wilt thou? wilt thou? thou bastardly rogue. 1640J. Dyke Rt. Receiv. Christ 44 A bastardly fruit, upon which shee cannot looke without blushing. 1749Fielding Tom Jones (1775) III. 63 Married to a poor bastardly vagabond. 1785Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Bastardly Gullion, a bastard's bastard.
2. Unlicensed, unauthorized; counterfeit, spurious.
1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 56 Our bastardly and apochryphate poets. 1626Donne 21 Serm. 208 Apocryphall and Bastardly Canons which they father upon the Apostles. a1679T. Goodwin Wks. (1864) VIII. 51 It is..a bastardly spurious mercy that is in creatures.
3. = bastard a. 5.
1607Topsell Serpents 638 Others..are without a sting, as counterfeit and bastardly Bees. 1610P. Barrough Meth. Physick iv. viii. (1639) 234 A Bastardly Tertian is caused, when choler is mixed..with fleame.
4. Degenerate, debased, corrupt.
1587Golding De Mornay xvii. 273 Such an vnkindly and Bastardly Nature, that not euen the best of vs haue any whit of our former nature..sauing onely shame. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 71 The bastardly fermentation of the blood. |