different between abastardize vs bastardize

English

Alternative forms

• abastardise (UK)

Etymology

From Middle French abastardir, from Old French a- + bastart (“bastard”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /e??bæs.t??da?z/

Verb

abastardize (third-person singular simple present abastardizes, present participle abastardizing, simple past and past participle abastardized)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To stigmatize as a bastard; debase. [Attested from the late 16^th century until the late 17^th century.]

Translations

References

English

Alternative forms

• bastardise

Etymology

bastard +? -ize

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bæst?da?z/

Verb

bastardize (third-person singular simple present bastardizes, present participle bastardizing, simple past and past participle bastardized)

1. To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate.
   • 1768, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England:

     Our law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if it be born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock.

2. To reduce from a higher to a lower state, such as by removing refined elements or introducing debased elements; to debase.
   • 2017, Douglas Charles Kane, Beren and Lúthien (2017) by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien, in Journal of Tolkien Research, Volume 4, Issue 2, Article 5,

     The third potential audience is the general public at large, who either never has read any of Tolkien’s books or perhaps read The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit long ago, but whose knowledge about Tolkien’s created secondary universe comes, if at all, mostly from seeing Peter Jackson’s bastardized adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit.

3. To beget out of wedlock.

Synonyms

• (introduce debased elements into): mongrelize