Meaning of ILLEGITIMATE
| Pronunciation: | | [n]`ili'jitu`mit, [v]`ili'jitu`meyt, `ili'jitumut
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | 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 |
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| | Antonyms: | | legitimate | | |
| | See Also: | | invalid, issue, offspring, progeny, unauthorised, unauthorized | |
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\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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