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单词 bastardize
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bastardizev.

Brit. /ˈbɑːstədʌɪz/, /ˈbastədʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈbæstərˌdaɪz/
Forms: 1500s– bastardize, 1600s– bastardise.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bastard n., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < bastard n. + -ize suffix. Compare slightly earlier abastard v., abastardize v., and also earlier bastard v.
1. transitive. To declare or render (a person) illegitimate. Now somewhat archaic.In quot. 1585 in figurative context.
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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
1585 T. Bilson True Difference Christian Subiection 683 That unshamefast harlot [sc. the Church]..did prostitute her selfe and bastardize her offspring as much as lay in her.
1631 W. Saltonstall Picturæ Loquentes sig. E2v His ielous thoughts are ready to bastardize his Children.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 435 To annul the marriage and bastardize the issue.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. i. 36 To bastardize the princess Mary.
1944 M. Irwin Young Bess i. 5 Nobody could be quite sure how the King's two daughters stood; so often had their father bastardized and legitimized them by turns.
2011 Amer. Hist. Rev. 116 1183/1 Rapacious relatives played the invalidity card in order to disinherit widow(er)s and bastardize children.
2.
a. transitive. To cause (something) to become debased or degenerate; to adulterate or corrupt (something, esp. a language, body of knowledge, or other system) by introducing new or incompatible elements.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [verb (transitive)] > in quality or character
defade1423
debase1569
deteriorate1572
welk1579
bastardize1587
invile1599
winter1622
disimprove1642
degenerate1645
deterior1646
imbastardize1649
degrade1652
honeycomb1821
travesty1825
1587 J. Harmar tr. T. de Bèze Serm. 142 The ground Articles and points of true religion..be in diuers sorts..disguised and bastardized [Fr. abastardis].
1601 W. Cornwallis Disc. Seneca sig. A2v Feare..bastardizeth their natures, and corrupts them.
1659 J. Ufflet Wits Fancies 21 Beasts as well as men, do soon alter and bastardise their affections.
1779 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 69 239 Defect of the season..keeps back and bastardizes the one sort.
1836 Monthly Mag. Mar. p. ix A culpable attempt at bastardizing the laws of Nature.
1964 Economist 25 Apr. 354/1 ‘Franglais’—what the professor [sc. Etiemble] sees as French bastardised and ruined by Anglo-Saxon..borrowings.
2010 Law & Philos. 29 501 We cannot simply bastardize the criminal law and claim to be punishing the deserving.
b. intransitive. To deteriorate. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [verb (intransitive)] > in quality or character
forworthc1000
wearc1275
spilla1300
defadec1325
pall?c1335
forlinec1374
sinka1500
degender1539
degener1545
degenerate1545
dwindle1598
degenerize1606
disflourish1640
deflourish1656
waste1669
tarnish1678
devolve1830
honeycomb1868
bastardize1878
slush1882
1878 J. R. Seeley tr. D. H. von Bülow Life & Times Stein I. ii. 249 He who from horror of war lets his army..lie idle in garrison service, where it rusts and bastardises.
3. transitive. Australian colloquial (chiefly Military). To subject (a new recruit at a training or educational institution) to physical or psychological harassment as a form of initiation; to bully or victimize in this way. Cf. bastardization n. 3, haze v.1 2b.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > treat cruelly [verb (transitive)] > specific college freshman
haze1850
bastardize1966
1966 Tharunka (Kensington, New S. Wales) 14 June 8/2 Second class are the most active in orientating, i.e. bastardising, the new arrivals.
1983 Economist 6 Aug. 13/3 A bunch of bullies at the Australian equivalent of Sandhurst were being accused of ‘bastardising’ some of their fellow officer-cadets.
2012 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 12 Mar. 24 Unfortunately, the document does not state..that ‘we have to stop bastardising one another’, but the subtext is clear.

Derivatives

ˈbastardizer n.
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1776 ‘A Layman’ Theol. Doubts iv. 438 The Council of Nice..was not the ghostly repudiator, the bastardizer of the Trinity.
1860 J. Riddell Comm. Stirlings of Keir i. 2 The callous or unwitting bastardiser of the Hamiltons, the strange result of his undue venal attempts to enhance their Scotch antiquity.
1967 Commentary (N.Y.) Oct. 30/3 Cranks and bastardizers who utter trivialities and are beset by delusional absurdities.
2017 Weekly Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 22 Nov. 19 These bastardisers of social etiquette must be stopped.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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