Definition of legitimate

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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..

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Adulterine :: Adulterine (n.) An illegitimate child.
Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions..
Exploit :: Exploit (n.) Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon.
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.
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..
Natural :: Natural (a.) Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child..
Bastard :: Bastard (a.) Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note..
Unfathered :: Unfathered (a.) Having no acknowledged father; hence, illegitimate; spurious; bastard..
Miscreated :: Miscreated (a.) Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed.
Legitimation :: Legitimation (n.) The act of making legitimate.
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..
Spurless :: Spurious (a.) Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue..
Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference..
Illegitimatize :: Illegitimatize (v. t.) To render illegitimate; to bastardize.
Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.
Legitimize :: Legitimize (v. t.) To legitimate.
"""bastard " :: Bastard (n.) A natural child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union..
Legitimateness :: Legitimateness (n.) The state or quality of being legitimate; lawfulness; genuineness.
Jacobinism :: Jacobinism (n.) The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government.
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..
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