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Definition of Bastardise

1. Verb. Change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms.

Definition of Bastardise

1. Verb. (alternative spelling of bastardize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bastardise

1. [v -DISED, -DISING, -DISES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastardise

Literary usage of Bastardise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1820)
"3dly, That the non-access of the husband was not proved to have continued during the whole time of the wife's pregnancy ; which was necessary to bastardise ..."

2. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1903)
"In the case in which we are you will never be received to bastardise Nicholas, unless you say that Nicholas entered etc. ' and not as heir in blood. ..."

3. A Complete Practical Treatise on Criminal Procedure, Pleading, and Evidence by John Frederick Archbold, John Jervis, William Newland Welsby, Thomas Whitney Waterman (1853)
"And it has been held, that a woman cannot give evidence of the non-access of her husband to bastardise her issue, although he be dead at ..."

4. Ruling Cases by Irving Browne, Leonard Augustus Jones, James Tower Keen, John Melville Gould (1897)
"... to bastardise the issue born during the continuance of lawful wedlock. ... not tending directly to bastardise issue does not become inadmissible merely ..."

5. A Practical Treatise on the Appellate Jurisdiction of the House of Lords by John Fraser Macqueen (1842)
"... his counsel having stated that it was his intention to call evidence to support the clause by which it was sought to bastardise the child born in ..."

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