See Also: Illegitimate(medicine)
Illegitimate(money)
illegitimate(1)(dictionary)
illegitimate(2)(dictionary)
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ILLEGITIMATE(law)

illegitimate(1) (iou)



illegitimate adjective & noun. M16.
[from late Latin illegitimus after LEGITIMATE adjective: see IL-2, -ATE2.]
A. adjective.
Born to parents who are not lawfully married, not entitled in law to full filial rights. M16.
A. Fraser He was an illegitimate son, born before her marriage.
gen. Not legitimate; not in accordance with or authorized by law; not in accordance with a rule; irregular, abnormal. L16.
A. J. Ayer Physical symbols..fail to satisfy this condition, and some positivists..regard..them as illegitimate.
Of drama: concerned with spectacle rather than literary quality. E19.
b. noun.
An illegitimate person; a person who does something illegitimate or irregular. L17.
A free settler in Australia. obsolete exc. Hist. E19.
? By the civil and canon laws, and since 1926 by the law of England, a child born out of wedlock is legitimated by the subsequent marriage of the parents.
illegitimately adverb M17.
illegitimatize verb trans. = ILLEGITIMATE verb E19.