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Adulterine :: Adulterine (n.) An illegitimate child.

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..

Miscreate :: Miscreate (a.) Miscreated; illegitimate; forged; as, miscreate titles..

Spurless :: Spurious (a.) Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue..

Truly :: Truly (adv.) Conformably to law; legally; legitimately.

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

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..

By-blow :: By-blow (n.) An illegitimate child; a bastard.

Bastardize :: Bastardize (v. t.) To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

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

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..

Exploit :: Exploit (n.) Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon.

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

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

Legitimate :: Legitimate (v. t.) To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child..

Titleless :: Titleless (a.) Not having a title or name; without legitimate title.

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

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

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..

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

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