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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Legitimate \Le*git"i*mate\ (-m[amac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Legitimated} (-m[amac]`t[ecr]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Legitimating} (-m[amac]`t[icr]ng).] To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child. To enact a statute of that which he dares not seem to approve, even to legitimate vice. --Milton. | |
