To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.
In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements.
Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard or method
Authentic, real, genuine.
legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions
Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.
Relating to hereditary rights.