单词 | bastardization |
释义 | bastardizationn. 1. The action of adulterating, corrupting, or debasing something; (also) the process or result of such an action, esp. in the context of a language, body of knowledge, or other system. Also: an instance of this.rare before the 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > action or fact of mixing > of incongruous elements bastardization1650 mongrelization1868 hybridization1960 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > admixture or addition as ingredient > adulteration cauponation1531 sophistication1541 adulterating1581 bastarding1583 bastardizing1598 sophisticating1611 adultery1616 adulteration1626 adulterism1639 bastardization1650 compassing1669 contagion1695 doctoring1805 1650 J. Hall Grounds Monarchy 27 As for the [Church] Fathers (granting them free of their many Bastardizations, interpolations, and all those Errors and uncertainties which the process of time and fraud of men hath foysted into them). 1859 Wool & Woollen Manufactures Great Brit. (Samuel Brothers Merchant Tailors) 51 These enactments..were directed to preserve the superiority of the British manufacture, and its credit in foreign markets, which was hazarded by bastardization. 1894 Railway Carmen's Jrnl. June 135/1 To further this scheme the money kings demanded the unconditional repeal of the Sherman silver purchase law and the total bastardization of silver. 1957 New Yorker 14 Sept. 33/3 In language controls, the trend is toward bastardization. 1974 J. Dowell Look-off Bear Pref. p. viii The Micmacs (an English/French bastardization of their true name, Meegumaag). 2017 Afr. News (Nexis) 10 Feb. A grotesque bastardisation of the idea of a state of the nation address. 2. The action of declaring or rendering a person illegitimate. Now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [noun] > illegitimacy > process of rendering illegitimate bastarding1548 bastardizing1611 bastardization1812 1812 Monthly Mag. July 525/1 The bastardization of King Henry's daughters. 1954 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 3 355 A contrary conclusion would have meant the bastardisation of the first child. 2011 Islamic Law & Society 18 235 Protecting against the bastardization of children and preventing the exposure of immoral behaviour by the parents. 3. Australian colloquial (chiefly Military). The action of subjecting new recruits in training or educational institutions to physical or psychological harassment as a form of initiation; bullying or victimization of this sort. Cf. hazing n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [noun] > practised on college freshmen hazing1855 ragging1903 bastardization1964 1964 Bulletin (Sydney) 6 June 22/2 Fourth class cadets suffer what is known as ‘bastardisation’. They have to listen to the 6.45 a.m. news and they may have to repeat this back at breakfast, item by item. 1983 Sydney Morning Herald 13 Apr. 1/3 Bastardisation, or the systematic hazing of junior cadets, has been back at Duntroon for 10 years. 2000 Canberra Times (Nexis) 1 Sept. a3 Parliament has authorised an inquiry into allegations of bastardisation at the 3rd Royal Australian Regiment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1650 |
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