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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..

Unfathered :: Unfathered (a.) Having no acknowledged father; hence, illegitimate; spurious; bastard..

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

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

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

Illegitimated :: Illegitimated (imp. & p. p.) of Illegitimat.

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

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 (a.) Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions..

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..

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..

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.

Illegitimately :: Illegitimately (adv.) In a illegitimate manner; unlawfully.

Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference..

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..

Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper.

Legitimateness :: Legitimateness (n.) The state or quality of being legitimate; lawfulness; genuineness.

Natural :: Natural (a.) Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child..

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

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