Il`le*git"i*mate (?), a.
1. Not according to law; not regular or
authorized; unlawful; improper.
2. Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock;
bastard; as, an illegitimate child.
3. Not legitimately deduced or inferred;
illogical; as, an illegitimate inference.
4. Not authorized by good usage; not genuine;
spurious; as, an illegitimate word.
Illegitimate fertilization, or
Illegitimate union (Bot.), the
fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in
heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
Darwin.
Il`le*git"i*mate (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Illegitimated (?); p.
pr. & vb. n. Illegitimating.] To render
illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to
bastardize; to illegitimatize.
The marriage should only be dissolved for the future,
without illegitimating the issue.
Bp.
Burnet.
