单词 | abastardize |
释义 | abastardizev. rare (archaic) after 17th cent. transitive. To declare or render illegitimate; (hence) to make corrupt or degenerate; to debase. Cf. bastardize v. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > have a child [verb (transitive)] > declare illegitimate bastard1548 abastardize1574 bastardize1585 bastardry1658 1574 J. Baret Aluearie D 387 To cast his sonne out of his house, to depriue or put him from the hope of succession or inheritance for some misdeede: To abastardise him. 1606 S. Daniel Queenes Arcadia v. iv. sig. L1v And being our selues Corrupted, and abastardized thus. a1668 W. Waller Divine Medit. (1680) xvii. 125 Man only..could not command himself, but being misgoverned by his own corrupt affections, did imbase, and abbasterdise that noble kind wherewith God had honor'd him. 1692 J. Quick Synodicon II. xxvii. 402 In the Papacy, where they be..abastardized by a world of fruitless, useless, and endless Inquiries. 1922 G. Calderon Cromwell ii. i, in Three Plays & Pantomime 217 When she was like to see her maid a Queen, Herself beshent, her child abastardised, The proud Castilian lion stirred in her, Awoke and sprang to battle for its cub. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1574 |
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