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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
bastardized
    adj 1: deriving from more than one source or style [syn:
           bastardized, bastardised]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bastardize \Bas"tard*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bastardized
   (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bastardizing.]
   1. To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a
      bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
      [1913 Webster]

            The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the
            child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful
            wedlock.                              --Blackstone.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To beget out of wedlock. [R.] --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. to change something (for example, art forms) so that its
      value declines; to debase.

   Syn: bastardise.
        [WordNet 1.5]
3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bastardized \bastardized\ adj. (Arts)
   deriving from more than one source or style. impure (vs.
   pure) --- (combined with extraneous elements)
   [WordNet 1.5]
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