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  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. 

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