单词 | bastardize |
释义 | bastardizev. 1. transitive. To declare or render (a person) illegitimate. Now somewhat archaic.In quot. 1585 in figurative context. 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 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < v.1585 |
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