Word: bastardize
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...problem of the illegitimate child is as old as the institution of marriage. The first policy of the law was to refuse such offspring any legal recognition. As early, however, as 1575, one finds an English statute providing that, when a bastard was born in any parish, the local justices of the peace might order the child to be kept by the public authorities and compel either the mother or the reputed father to contribute to its support. The Norwegian law is today considered the most enlightened legislation on the subject. It gives the child the right to be supported...
...Stewa falls in love with another lady. Laca calls on the stepmother. He would marry the girl himself, he says, but damme, he cannot stomach the child. Whereupon the stepmother, on a black winter's night, drugs Jenufa, steals out hugger-mugger into the dark and drowns the bastard in an icy brook. On the day of the marriage feast, the ice thaws, peasants discover a disfigured bundle in the sedge. Step-mother is led off to jail, but iron bars make no cage for her. Her daughter is an Honest Woman...
...HOWARD OF NEBRASKA (who afterwards voted in favor of the bill) : "To vote for this bill will be to give the recognition of legitimacy to a legislative bastard, conceived in the fertile brain of a professional profiteering patriot, and accouched on a damask divan in the gold room in the house of Morgan & Co., attended by a galaxy of accoucheurs appointed by Treasury Secretary Mellon and approved by the President of the United States...
Charles VII,Dallas Anderson Queen Isabel, his mother, Dorothy Dorr Agnes Sorel, his mistress, Beatrice Agnew Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, Wilfrid North Earl Dunois, bastard of Orleans, E. Hales La Hire, royal officer, Lumsden Hare Du Chatel, royal officer, Frank Burbeck Archbishop of Rheims, Gustave von Seyffertitz Faoul, a Lotharingian knight, J. Malcolm Dunn Talbot, English general, R. Peyton Carter Lionel, English general, Martin Sabine Councilor of Orleans, F. B. Hersome An English herald, Francis Shannon A squire, Richard Garrick Thibaut d'Arc, a wealthy countryman, Louis Massen Margot, his daughter, Lillian Spencer Loulson, his daughter, Laura Stanley...
...characters Shakspere placed one set of virtues against a corresponding set of vices. Lear's two older daughters, Goneril and Regan, are contrasted to their younger sister Cordelia, and in the same way the character of Edgar, the Duke's lawful son, is contrasted with that of Edmund the bastard...