Illegitimate /(?)/

Il·le·git·i·mate

Illegitimate

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.

Phrases & Compounds
Illegitimate fertilization
the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.

Illegitimate

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Illegitimated; p. pr. & vb. n. Illegitimating

  1. 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.