[f. next; see -ATION.] The declaring or rendering bastard.
1818. W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., LXXXVII. 534. The illegitimation, or bastardization, of the children of Edward IV.
1838. Blackw. Mag., XLIII. 763. Declaring wedlock to be a mere civil engagement … to the bastardization, one may almost say, of society.
