imbastardize

present singular third person imbastardizes · participle present imbastardizing · participle past imbastardized · past imbastardized

1. obsoletetransitiveto bastardize, debase

   Imbastardized terrific, be, Where nothing sure is willed

   1882, Seibert, John, The Morning Star: An Epic Poem, Chicago: Cushing, Thomas & Co., page 230

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   and partly becauſe in our times their order is indeed imbaſterdized, and nothing fo valourous and faithfull, as it hath beene heretofore.

   1603, The Ottoman of Lazaro Soranzo, London: Iohn Windet, page 16

   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

   1649, J[ohn] Milton, “Preface”, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC, page n15