Bastardizing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the
              child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful
              wedlock.                              --Blackstone.
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     2. To beget out of wedlock. [R.] --Shak.
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     3. to change something (for example, art forms) so that its
        value declines; to debase.
  
     Syn: bastardise.
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