bastardize : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bastardize	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for bastardize
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bastardize v change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms Synonym(s): bastardize, bastardise declare a child to be illegitimate Synonym(s): bastardize, bastardise
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bastardize \Bas"tardize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bastardized} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bastardizing}.] 1. To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate. The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize* the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. --Blackstone. 2. To beget out of wedlock. [R.] --Shak.