Definition of legitimate

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Legitimate (a.) Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors..

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By-blow :: By-blow (n.) An illegitimate child; a bastard.
Base :: Base (a.) Illegitimate by birth; bastard.
Mulierly :: Mulierly (adv.) In the manner or condition of a mulier; in wedlock; legitimately.
Truly :: Truly (adv.) Conformably to law; legally; legitimately.
Basely :: Basely (adv.) Illegitimately; in bastardy.
Jacobinism :: Jacobinism (n.) The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government.
Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference..
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..
Legitimize :: Legitimize (v. t.) To legitimate.
Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.
Titleless :: Titleless (a.) Not having a title or name; without legitimate title.
Miscreate :: Miscreate (a.) Miscreated; illegitimate; forged; as, miscreate titles..
Legitimatize :: Legitimatize (v. t.) To legitimate.
Illegitimacy :: Illegitimacy (n.) The state of being illegitimate.
Illegitimatize :: Illegitimatize (v. t.) To render illegitimate; to bastardize.
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..
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..
"""bastard " :: Bastard (n.) A natural child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union..
Illegitimation :: Illegitimation (n.) The state of being illegitimate; illegitimacy.
Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions..
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