LEGITIMATE (2)

legitimate (2). Legitimate, v.i. to make lawful, qualify, adopt

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Le‐git″i‐mate (–māt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Legitimated (–mā′tĕd); p. pr. & vb. n. Legitimating (–mā′tĭng).] 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.