degenerate noun
Category: abnormalcy.
1604, Cawdrey:
be vnlike his auncestours.
1626, Cockeram:
Not listed.
1658, Phillips:
Not listed.
degenerate verb
1604, Cawdrey:
to grow out of kind.
1626, Cockeram:
to turne out of kinde.
1658, Phillips:
to fall from a more noble to a baser kinde, to go aside from the virtues of ones ancestors.