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 Le·git·i·mate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Legitimated p. pr. & vb. n. Legitimating ] 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.
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