n. The state of being illegitimate. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word. [ 1913 Webster ]

Illegitimate fertilization, or
Illegitimate union (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Illegitimated p. pr. & vb. n. Illegitimating. ] To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize. [ 1913 Webster ]

The marriage should only be dissolved for the future, without illegitimating the issue. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a illegitimate manner; unlawfully. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of illegitimating; bastardizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being illegitimate; illegitimacy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Gardiner had performed his promise to the queen of getting her illegitimation taken off. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To render illegitimate; to bastardize. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Legitimate, a. ] (Scots Law) The portion of movable estate to which the children are entitled upon the death of the father. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Legitimate, a. ] The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

The doctrine of Divine Right, which has now come back to us, like a thief from transportation, under the alias of Legitimacy. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. legitimatus, p. p. of legitimare to legitimate, fr. L. legitimus legitimate. See Legal. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfe`t, or spurious; as, $legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tillotson still keeps his place as a legitimate English classic. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Legitimated p. pr. & vb. n. Legitimating ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

To enact a statute of that which he dares not seem to approve, even to legitimate vice. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a legitimate manner; lawfully; genuinely. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being legitimate; lawfulness; genuineness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. légitimation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of making legitimate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The coining or legitimation of money. East. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lawful birth. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Legitimist. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To legitimate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The principles or plans of legitimists. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. légitimiste. ] 1. One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically, a supporter of the claims of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty to the crown of France. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Legitimized p. pr. & vb. n. Legitimizing. ] To legitimate. [ 1913 Webster ]