baseborn

Adjective

1. bastard, illegitimate
   • He said, "Though the law did not positively allow the destroying such base-born children, yet it held them to be the children of nobody; that the Church considered them as the children of nobody; and that at the best,...
2. Of lowly birth.
   • And while the baſe borne Tartars take it vp, You fighting more for honor than for gold: Shall maſſacre those greedie minded ſlaues. - c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The...
   • Non-Arabs, of whatever racial origin, were of course baseborn, but so too were many Arabs who, for one reason or another, were not full and free members of a tribe. - 2001, Bernard Lewis, Islam in history: ideas,...