3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Illegitimate \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
The marriage should only be dissolved for the future,
without illegitimating the issue. --Bp. Burnet.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
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}]
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