Illegitimate \Il`le*git"i*mate\, 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.
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The marriage should only be dissolved for the future,
without illegitimating the issue. --Bp. Burnet.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Illegitimate \Il`le*git"i*mate\, a.
1. Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful;
improper.
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2. Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an
illegitimate child.
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3. Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an
illegitimate inference.
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4. Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as,
an illegitimate word.
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Illegitimate fertilization, or Illegitimate union (Bot.),
the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own
length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic
flowers. --Darwin.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
illegitimate
adj 1: contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of
power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful
measures" [syn: illicit, outlaw(a), outlawed, unlawful]
2: of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful [ant: legitimate]
n : the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents [syn: bastard,
by-blow, love child, illegitimate child, whoreson]
WordNet (r) 2.0
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "illegitimate":
actionable, affected, against the law, anarchic, anarchistic,
anomic, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bantling, bar sinister,
baseborn, bastard, bastard child, bastardy, black-market, bogus,
bootleg, brummagem, by-blow, chargeable, colorable, colored,
contraband, contrary to law, counterfeit, counterfeited, criminal,
distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz,
factitious, fake, faked, false, falsified, fatherless, feigned,
felonious, fictitious, fictive, flawed, garbled, illegal,
illegitimacy, illegitimate child, illicit, imitation,
impermissible, improper, incorrect, invalid, irregular, junky,
justiciable, lawless, love child, make-believe, man-made,
misbegotten, miscreated, mock, natural, nonconstitutional,
nonlegal, nonlicit, outlaw, outlawed, perverted, phony, pinchbeck,
pretended, pseudo, punishable, put-on, quasi, queer, self-styled,
sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, spurious,
supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated, triable,
twisted, unallowed, unauthentic, unauthorized, unconstitutional,
under-the-counter, under-the-table, ungenuine, unlawful, unnatural,
unofficial, unreal, unstatutory, unwarrantable, unwarranted,
warped, wrongful
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
ILLEGITIMATE. That which is contrary to law; it is usually applied to
children born out of lawful wedlock. A bastard is sometimes called an
illegitimate child.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
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