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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Miscreate :: Miscreate (a.) Miscreated; illegitimate; forged; as, miscreate titles..
Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper.
Exploit :: Exploit (n.) Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon.
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..
Mulierly :: Mulierly (adv.) In the manner or condition of a mulier; in wedlock; legitimately.
Natural :: Natural (a.) Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child..
Illegitimation :: Illegitimation (n.) The state of being illegitimate; illegitimacy.
By-blow :: By-blow (n.) An illegitimate child; a bastard.
"""bastard " :: Bastard (n.) A natural child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union..
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..
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.
Legitimize :: Legitimize (v. t.) To legitimate.
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..
Basely :: Basely (adv.) Illegitimately; in bastardy.
Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.
Legitimated :: Legitimated (imp. & p. p.) of Legitimat.
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..
Base :: Base (a.) Illegitimate by birth; bastard.
Miscreated :: Miscreated (a.) Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed.
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