imbastardize

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Verb

imbastardize (third-person singular simple present imbastardizes, present participle imbastardizing, simple past and past participle imbastardized)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To bastardize; to debase.
    • 1649, J Milton, “Preface”, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ  , London: Matthew Simmons, , →OCLC, page n15:
      But now with a beſotted and degenerate baſeneſs of ſpirit, except ſome few, [...], the reſt imbaſtardiz'd from the ancient nobleneſs of thir Anceſtors, are ready to fall flatt and give adoration to the Image and memory of this Man

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “imbastardize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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