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Exploit :: Exploit (n.) Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon.

Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.

Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word..

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

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

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..

Legitimist :: Legitimist (n.) One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right..

Miscreated :: Miscreated (a.) Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed.

Legitimize :: Legitimize (v. t.) To legitimate.

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

Base :: Base (a.) Illegitimate by birth; bastard.

Legitimatize :: Legitimatize (v. t.) To legitimate.

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..

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

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.) 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.

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..

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.

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

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