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.
Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfe`t, or spurious; as,$legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions.
Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors.
Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.
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.
That which is legal, lawful, recognized by law or according to law.
in accordance with law or established legal forms or requirements; conforming to recognized principles or accepted rules and standards.
make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized"
of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful
in accordance with reason or logic; "a logical conclusion"
in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles; "legitimate advertising practices"
authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law; "a legitimate government"
Being exactly as it should be,: neither spurious nor false. In accordant with prevailing law. [D02937] RMW
Of taxonomic names and epithets: Published in accordance with the Code of Nomenclature. ( 22)