illegitimate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: illegitimate	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for illegitimate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
illegitimate adj contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures" Synonym(s): illegitimate, illicit, outlaw(a), outlawed, unlawful of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful Antonym(s): legitimate n the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents [syn: bastard, by-blow, love child, illegitimate child, illegitimate, whoreson]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Illegitimate \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Illegitimate \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.