Etymology : Middle English legitimat, from Medieval Latin legitimatus, past participle of legitimare to legitimate, from Latin legitimus legitimate, from leg-, lex law
Pronunciation : li-ji-t&-m&t
Function : adjective
Date : 15th century
1. make valid; make lawful; make legitimate; justify, make permissible. legal, lawful; acceptable; justified; reasonable, logical; born of parents who are legally married; correct, sound; authorized. legitimate\le*git"i*mate\ (-m&asl;t), a. [ll. legitimatus, p. p. of legitimare to legitimate, fr. l. legitimus legitimate. see:
legal.].
2. accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.
3. lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.
4. authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of chaucer; legitimate inscriptions.
5. conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors. tillotson still keeps his place as a legitimate english classic.
6. following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.legitimate \le*git"i*mate\ (-māt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. legitimated (-mā`t&ebreve;d); p. pr. & vb. n. legitimating (-mā`t&ibreve;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.
7. Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.
8. Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.
9. Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions.
10. Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors.
11. Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.
12. 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. make legitimate; declare the legitimacy of ; "They legitimized their natural child" show or affirm to be just and legitimate of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles; "legitimate advertising practices" in accordance with reason or logic; "a logical conclusion".
13. 1. Something that is legitimate is acceptable according to the law. The government will not seek to disrupt the legitimate business activities of the defendant. + legitimacy le·giti·ma·cy The opposition parties do not recognise the political legitimacy of his government. + legitimately le·giti·mate·ly The government has been legitimately elected by the people.
14. If you say that something such as a feeling or claim is legitimate, you think that it is reasonable and justified. That's a perfectly legitimate fear The New York Times has a legitimate claim to be a national newspaper. + legitimacy le·giti·ma·cy As if to prove the legitimacy of these fears, the Cabinet of Franz von Papen collapsed on December.
15. + legitimately le·giti·mate·ly They could quarrel quite legitimately with some of my choices.
16. A legitimate child is one whose parents were married before he or she was born. We only married in order that the child should be legitimate. ¡Ù illegitimate. the usual American form of legitimize.
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