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Definition of Dastard
1. Adjective. Despicably cowardly. "The unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th"
2. Noun. A despicable coward.
Definition of Dastard
1. n. One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon.
2. a. Meanly shrinking from danger; cowardly; dastardly.
3. v. t. To dastardize.
Definition of Dastard
1. Noun. A malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak. ¹
2. Adjective. meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dastard
1. a base coward [n -S]
Medical Definition of Dastard
1. One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon. "You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility." (Shak) Origin: Prob. From Icel. Daestr exhausted. Breathless, p. P. Of daesa to groan, lose one's breath; cf. Dasask to become exhausted, and E. Daze. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dastard
Literary usage of Dastard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"Fly to crush the dastard foe, CHORDS—To the fray, &c. IT. Onward, then, our
stainless banner, Let it kiss tiie stripe and star, Till in weal and woe united ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"There is no man so pusillanimous, so very a dastard, whom love would not incense,
make of a divine temper, and an heroical spirit. As he said in like case, ..."
3. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... so very a dastard, whom love would not incense, make of a divine temper, and
an heroical spirit As he said in like case, *Tota mal cedi moles, ..."
4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"... h miself a dastard, because forsooth he fought with н dub, and not ut the
.... dastard ..."
5. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"... starting from his seat, Claim'd every eye, and closed the cold debate,: Singling
his brothers from the dastard train, ..."
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