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Definition of Bastardises
1. bastardise [v] - See also: bastardise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastardises
Literary usage of Bastardises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"... since it not only affects the parties themselves whose marriage is annulled,
but also bastardises the issue. Sanctions, in some other cases, ..."
2. Life and Times of Stein, Or, Germany and Prussia in the Napoleonic Age by John Robert Seeley (1879)
"... where it rusts and bastardises and sinks into a spiritless militia of the sort
that German students call Philistine, and that you could hunt into flight ..."
3. Commentaries Upon International Law by Robert Phillimore (1874)
"... criminal punishment (b), and bastardises their issue ; while in another part
of the same kingdom the marriage is good, and the children are legitimate. ..."
4. Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover by Doran (John) (1855)
"Does he not tremble at the very thought that, if the abominable correspondence
and his own silly "probability" be maintainable, he bastardises a truly ..."
5. Ruling Cases by Irving Browne, Leonard Augustus Jones, James Tower Keen, Edward Manson, John Melville Gould (1898)
"... bastardises the issue: the same case, in the Year Book, 18th Hen. VI., p.
34, being cited for both positions. But if the contract alone makes the ..."
6. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1903)
"... bastardises the issue. They were not bastards till the sentence, and would
never become so if there should be no sentence. ..."
7. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1887)
"In a word, being perplexed by L. hylas, he sets up his "impure" theory, and
bastardises L. icarus ; being bothered by L. corydon, ..."
8. The Clan Donald by Angus Macdonald (1896)
"Hugh Macdonald, adopting what is with him a favourite role, bastardises Dugall,
evidently with the view of placing beyond doul>t or cavil the seniority of ..."
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