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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Legitimate \Le*git"i*mate\ (-m[=a]t), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Legitimated} (-m[=a]'t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Legitimating} (-m[=a]'t[i^]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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Legitimate \Le*git"i*mate\ (-m[asl]t), adjective [LL. legitimatus, p. p. of legitimare to legitimate, fr. L. legitimus legitimate. See {Legal}.]
1. 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.
2. Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.
3. Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfe't, or spurious; as,$legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions.
4. 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. --Macaulay.
5. Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
legitimate
adjective
1: of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful [ant: {illegitimate}]
2: in accordance with reason or logic; "a logical conclusion" [syn: {logical}]
3: in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles; "legitimate advertising practices"
4: authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law; "a legitimate government" [syn: {lawful}, {licit}]
verb
1: make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized" [syn: {legalize}, {legalise}, {decriminalize}, {decriminalise}, {legitimize}, {legitimise}, {legitimatize}, {legitimatise}] [ant: {outlaw}, {outlaw}, {outlaw}, {outlaw}]
2: show or affirm to be just and legitimate
3: make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone); "They legitimized their natural child"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
174 Moby Thesaurus words for "legitimate": acceptable, actionable, actor-proof, admissible, all-star, allowable, applicable, authentic, authoritative, authorize, authorized, ballet, balletic, binding, bona fide, by law, candid, card-carrying, certify, cinematic, cinematographic, cogent, competent, condonable, consistent, constitutional, correct, credible, de jure, defensible, dinkum, dispensable, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, excusable, exemptible, expiable, fair, film, filmic, following the letter, forgivable, genuine, good, ham, hammy, histrionic, honest, honest-to-God, inartificial, inoffensive, judicial, juridical, just, justiciable, justifiable, kosher, lawful, lawmaking, legal, legalize, legislative, legit, legitimatize, legitimize, legitimized, licit, lifelike, literal, logical, melodramatic, milked, monodramatic, movie, natural, naturalistic, operatic, original, overacted, overplayed, pardonable, permissible, plausible, proper, pure, rational, real, realistic, reasonable, remissible, right, rightful, sanction, sanctionable, sanctioned, sane, scenic, self-consistent, sensible, simon-pure, simple, sincere, solid, sound, spectacular, stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, starstruck, statutory, stellar, sterling, substantial, sufficient, sure-enough, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian, thrown away, true, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, underacted, underplayed, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unobjectionable, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, valid, validate, vaudevillian, venial, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, vindicable, warrant, warrantable, weighty, well-argued, well-founded, well-grounded, wholesome, within the law, word-for-word
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