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Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (v. t.) To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize.

Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir..

Miscreated :: Miscreated (a.) Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed.

Legitimist :: Legitimist (n.) One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right..

Champerty :: Champerty (n.) The prosecution or defense of a suit, whether by furnishing money or personal services, by one who has no legitimate concern therein, in consideration of an agreement that he shall receive, in the event of success, a share of the matter in suit; maintenance with the addition of an agreement to divide the thing in suit. See Maintenance..

Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.

Affiliate :: Affiliate (v. t.) To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another..

Child :: Child (n.) A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants..

Illegitimately :: Illegitimately (adv.) In a illegitimate manner; unlawfully.

Natural :: Natural (a.) Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death..

Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper.

Legitimatize :: Legitimatize (v. t.) To legitimate.

Lawful :: Lawful (a.) Conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; competent.

Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference..

Legitimated :: Legitimated (imp. & p. p.) of Legitimat.

Basely :: Basely (adv.) Illegitimately; in bastardy.

Illegitimated :: Illegitimated (imp. & p. p.) of Illegitimat.

Legitimacy :: Legitimacy (a.) The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock..

Legitimately :: Legitimately (adv.) In a legitimate manner; lawfully; genuinely.

Legitimation :: Legitimation (n.) The act of making legitimate.

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