Wiktionary
BASTARDIZE, verb. To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate.
BASTARDIZE, verb. To reduce from a higher to a lower state; to debase.
BASTARDIZE, verb. To introduce debased elements into.
BASTARDIZE, verb. To beget out of wedlock.
Dictionary definition
BASTARDIZE, verb. Change something so that its value declines; for example, art forms.
BASTARDIZE, verb. Declare a child to be illegitimate.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
