Definition of illegitimate

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Illegitimate (a.) Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child..

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"""bastard " :: Bastard (n.) A natural child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union..
Exploit :: Exploit (n.) Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon.
Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (v. t.) To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize.
Adulterine :: Adulterine (n.) An illegitimate child.
Illegitimately :: Illegitimately (adv.) In a illegitimate manner; unlawfully.
Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference..
Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper.
Bastard :: Bastard (a.) Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note..
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.
Illegitimation :: Illegitimation (n.) The state of being illegitimate; illegitimacy.
Illegitimatize :: Illegitimatize (v. t.) To render illegitimate; to bastardize.
Fitz :: Fitz (n.) A son; -- used in compound names, to indicate paternity, esp. of the illegitimate sons of kings and princes of the blood; as, Fitzroy, the son of the king; Fitzclarence, the son of the duke of Clarence..
By-blow :: By-blow (n.) An illegitimate child; a bastard.
Unfathered :: Unfathered (a.) Having no acknowledged father; hence, illegitimate; spurious; bastard..
Miscreated :: Miscreated (a.) Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed.
Illegitimated :: Illegitimated (imp. & p. p.) of Illegitimat.
Miscreate :: Miscreate (a.) Miscreated; illegitimate; forged; as, miscreate titles..
Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word..
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..
Illegitimacy :: Illegitimacy (n.) The state of being illegitimate.
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