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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Titleless :: Titleless (a.) Not having a title or name; without legitimate title.
Spurless :: Spurious (a.) Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue..
Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.
Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word..
Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper.
Base :: Base (a.) Illegitimate by birth; bastard.
Legitimist :: Legitimist (n.) One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right..
Legitimize :: Legitimize (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..
Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions..
Legitimation :: Legitimation (n.) The act of making legitimate.
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..
Revolt :: Revolt (n.) The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire..
Basely :: Basely (adv.) Illegitimately; in bastardy.
Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child..
Mulierly :: Mulierly (adv.) In the manner or condition of a mulier; in wedlock; legitimately.
Legitimateness :: Legitimateness (n.) The state or quality of being legitimate; lawfulness; genuineness.
Miscreate :: Miscreate (a.) Miscreated; illegitimate; forged; as, miscreate titles..
Exploit :: Exploit (n.) Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon.
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