bastardism

[Eng. bastard; -ism.] The state or condition of a bastard. ( Cotgrave.) băs'-tard-īze, v.t. [Eng. bastard; -ize.] I. With a person for the object: *1. To beget a bastard. "I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing ." -Shakesp.: Lear , i. 2. 2. To render one a bastard by legislation, or to convict one of being a bastard; legally to declare one a bastard. ( Burn : Just . of Peace .) II. With a thing for the object : To render illegitimate or abnormal. (See example under the participial adjective.] băs-tard-ized, pa . par . & a. ". irregular, abbreviated, and bastardized languages."-Darwin: Descent of Man , vol. i, pt. i., ch. ii. băs-tard-iz-ing, pr . p .,s., & a . [BASTARDIZE.] băs'-tard-ly, adv. & a. A. As adverb: Like a bastard; after the manner of a bastard. [Used ( lit. ) of persons or ( fig.) of things.] "Good seed degenerates, and oft obeys The soil's disease, and into cockle strays; Let the mind's thoughts but be transplanted so Into the body, and bastardly they grow." Donne. B. As adjective : Spurious, counterfeit, not really what it looks like or is called after. " Bastardly tertian."-Bar rough: Method of Physick (1624). ( Hall i well : Contr. to Lexicog.)