Illegitimate Definition & Meaning

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Illegitimate

Illegitimate Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Illegitimate? [n] the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents [adj] contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures" [adj] of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful Synonyms \| Synonyms for Illegitimate: adulterine \| base \| baseborn \| bastard \| bastard \| bastardly \| by-blow \| fatherless \| illegal \| illegitimate child \| illicit \| left-handed \| love child \| misbegot \| misbegotten \| outlaw(a) \| outlawed \| spurious \| unlawful \| whoreson \| wrongful Related Terms \| Find terms related to 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 See Also \| invalid \| issue \| offspring \| progeny \| unauthorised \| unauthorized Illegitimate In Webster's Dictionary \Il`legit"imate\, a. 1. Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper. 2. Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child. 3. Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference. 4. Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word. {Illegitimate fertilization}, or {Illegitimate union} (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers. --Darwin. \Il`legit"imate\, 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. The marriage should only be dissolved for the future, without illegitimating the issue. --Bp. Burnet.

Illegitimate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Illegitimate?

[n] the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
[adj] contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures"
[adj] of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful

Illegitimate In Webster's Dictionary

\Il`le*git"i*mate\, a.
1. Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful;
   improper.

2. Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an
   illegitimate child.

3. Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an
   illegitimate inference.

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

{Illegitimate fertilization}, or {Illegitimate union} (Bot.),
   the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own
   length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic
   flowers. --Darwin.


\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.

      The marriage should only be dissolved for the future,
      without illegitimating the issue.        --Bp. Burnet.

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