单词 | bastardy |
释义 | bastardyn. 1. a. The fact or condition of being born out of wedlock; illegitimacy. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [noun] > illegitimacy bastc1325 bastardy?a1400 bastardryc1425 bastardise1579 base1586 bastardism?1589 illegitimation1595 basenessa1616 bastardliness1647 illegitimateness1648 spuriousness1668 illegitimacy1680 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. l. 3706 Tis Daneus had one bascardie [read bastardie; a1450 Lamb. bastardie], a sone. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. l. 391 Of his breþer he toke with hym ten..Þat wer foreyn fro stok of regalye, Oute of þe lyne born in bastardie. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 58/1 [To] allege bastardy..So that he should seme dishabled to inherite the crowne. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 31 No Crosse-barre of Bastardy..can bolt Grace out of that Heart, wherein God will have it to enter. 1762 tr. J. Davies Rep. Cases Law Ireland 141 As is manifest by the writs of several natures, directed to bishops, by which the king commands them to certify Bastardy, Excommunication, Profession, Accouplement in lawful matrimony, [etc.]. 1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) v. iii. 163 Shall bear about their bastardy in triumph To the third spurious generation. 1960 E. Fromm & A. S. Neill Summerhill: Radical Approach to Child Rearing 343 No pro-life citizen would tolerate our penal code, our hangings, our punishment of homosexuals, our attitude toward bastardy. 2014 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 2 Aug. (Final ed.) (Beliefs section) 13 Getting us away from stigma of bastardy and the stigma of children being born out of wedlock. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > illegitimate child > collectively bastardy1598 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. x. sig. H6 Which still he huggs, and lulls as tenderly As cuckold Tisus his wifes bastardie. 1607 T. Middleton Phoenix sig. D4v Reuerend, and honourable Matrimony,..without thee, All the whole world were soyled Bastardy. 2. The begetting of an illegitimate child or children; (also) fornication. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [noun] > fornication > begetting or bearing bastards bastardy1551 bastardry1605 bastarding1633 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. lxxiiijv He was the sonne of a bastarde, and suffered thys preposterouse religyon or bastardye of prestes without wyues, to take place here in hys dayes. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 303 Overthrowing the foundation of the family, by such bastardy. 1772 Younger Brother II. xx. 59 To have a charge of bastardy fixed upon me..was a circumstance not easily to be palliated. 1888 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 14 Jan. 3/3 He..urges the passage of laws now lacking for the punishment of incest, seduction, bastardy, adultery, fornication. 1992 V. E. Bynum Unruly Women 186 Of 169 women charged with bastardy between 1850 and 1860 in the three counties, 29 refused to name the fathers of their children. 3. figurative. The state or condition of being mixed, adulterated, corrupted, or debased; heterogeneity, esp. with regard to use of language; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ 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 > quality of being adulterated bastardy1574 impurity1605 unsincerity1661 1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. St. Paule to Galathians xxx. f. 226 There is nothing in them but corruptnesse and bastardie. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 137 When euery drop of blood..Is guilty of a seuerall Bastardie . View more context for this quotation 1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund I. iii. ii. 465 Father on them whatever though wilt, taking great care that the Latin has no solecisms in it, and..they will never discover the bastardy by thy face. 1884 Auk 1 320 Extension of this practise has led us to commit the verbal bastardy of ‘mononomial’ and ‘polynomial,’ in speaking of names consisting respectively of one or several terms. 1954 Science 10 Sept. 434/2 Some young Americans, already ill footed in their mother tongue,..have fallen into a ragged bastardy of language. 2000 Guardian 8 Jan. 22/3 A German lineage exchanged for a Spanish-Irish one, a bastardy that reflected O'Brian's own unease with his identity. Compounds C1. General attributive (in sense 2), as bastardy law, bastardy proceeding, etc. ΚΠ 1794 T. Battye Reply to Mr. Unite's Addr. 7 Mr. Edgeley was..asked, if he had ever heard of the Bastardy Book. 1833 Dublin Temperance Gaz. Dec. 173 In 21 bastardy cases,—15 men attribute their condition to idleness and ignorance, 6 to drinking. 1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. viii. 70 Bastardy laws..put the maintenance of an illegitimate child on its putative parent. 1913 Indianapolis Star 3 Apr. 17/4 In a bastardy proceeding the jury found for the relatrix and the trial court overruled the motion for a new trial. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Apr. 31/2 His expertise also extended to sex; he reports sitting on a bastardy appeal that lasted five hours. C2. bastardy order n. Law (chiefly British) (now historical) a court order against a man adjudged to be the father of an illegitimate child, compelling him to provide financial support for the child; = affiliation order n. at affiliation n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > [noun] > judgement or decision of court > decision in writing or court order > in family cases bastardy order1796 affiliation order1832 maintenance order1920 care order1969 1796 T. Battye Disclosure Parochial Abuse 41 It..appears from the dates of the bastardy orders, that a great part of these subsequent arrears originated in Mr. Unite's ownership. 1867 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench 2 468 In Slater's Case it was held that an original bastardy order could not be annulled by a subsequent order. 1912 G. Stone Quest. National Insur. 100 Will the fact that the mother..is receiving maternity benefit make any difference to the amount of the bastardy order? 1962 Times 16 Mar. 13/6 Under the Measure a clergyman must be deprived if he has a bastardy order made against him. bastardy ratio n. the ratio of children born out of wedlock to the total number of children born in a population.Chiefly in the context of demographic studies of historical populations. ΚΠ 1837 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 844/2 The bastardy ratio may be higher in the former than the latter place. 2006 Sixteenth Cent. Jrnl. 37 77 An additional eleven individuals were buried unbaptized,..creating a bastardy ratio of as high as 12.3 percent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.?a1400 |
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