a. Obs.; also 6 basterlie, basterdly, 6–7 bastardlye. [f. BASTARD sb. + -LY1.]
1. Of bastard sort; mongrel, base-born.
1552. Huloet, Bastardlye, as not after the ryght sort begotten, spurius.
1555. Bale, in Strype, Eccl. Mem., III. App. xxxix. 108. Our unnatural and bastardly brethren.
1586. J. Hooker, Girald. Irel., in Holinsh., II. 141/1. His sonnes, that basterlie brood.
1597. Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., II. i. 55. Wilt thou? wilt thou? thou bastardly rogue.
1640. J. Dyke, Rt. Receiv. Christ, 44. A bastardly fruit, upon which shee cannot looke without blushing.
1749. Fielding, Tom Jones (1775), III. 63. Married to a poor bastardly vagabond.
1785. Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Bastardly Gullion, a bastard’s bastard.
2. Unlicensed, unauthorized; counterfeit, spurious.
1586. Ferne, Blaz. Gentrie, 56. Our bastardly and apochryphate poets.
1626. Donne, 21 Serm., 208. Apocryphall and Bastardly Canons which they father upon the Apostles.
a. 1679. T. Goodwin, Wks. (1864), VIII. 51. It is … a bastardly spurious mercy that is in creatures.
3. = BASTARD a. 5.
1607. Topsell, Serpents, 638. Others … are without a sting, as counterfeit and bastardly Bees.
1610. Barrough, Meth. Physick, IV. viii. (1639), 234. A Bastardly Tertian is caused, when choler is mixed … with fleame.
4. Degenerate, debased, corrupt.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, xvii. 273. Such an vnkindly and Bastardly Nature, that not euen the best of vs haue any whit of our former nature … sauing onely shame.
1669. W. Simpson, Hydrol. Chym., 71. The bastardly fermentation of the blood.
