abastardize
English
Alternative forms
- abastardise (UK)
Etymology
From Middle French abastardir, from Old French a- + bastart (“bastard”).
Pronunciation
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Verb
abastardize (third-person singular simple present abastardiz, present participle ing, simple past and past participle abastardized)
- (transitive, obsolete) To stigmatize as a bastard; debase. [Attested from the late 16th century until the late 17th century.][1]
Translations
to render bastard
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References
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abastardize”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.