†abastardize,-ise,v.? Obs.|əˈbɑːstədaɪz,-æ-|[f.Fr.abastard-ir, -iss-ant: seeprec.The term. -ise representing the -iss- of the extended stem inFr.has been refashioned aftervbs.in -ize.Cf.amortize.]To render bastard, spurious, or degenerate; to debase, or deteriorate.1580HollybandTreas.French Tong.,Abastardir..to corrupt, or abastardise, to counterfait.1605DanielQueen's Arcadia v. iv. (Wks.1717) I. 224And being our selves Corrupted, and abastardized thus.1610DonneSermon xcvi. IV. 258An insinuating of false and adulterous blood, in abastardizing a race, by supposititious children.1653BulwerArtificiall Changeling (quoting Donne)Doe not abastardise that noble kind, that noble nature, that God hath imparted to thee.