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English Dictionary: bastardized by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bastardized
adj
  1. deriving from more than one source or style [syn: bastardized, bastardised]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bastardize \Bas"tard*ize\, 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.
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