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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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. | |
