Legitimating

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Legitimate \Le*git"i*mate\ (-m[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Legitimated} (-m[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Legitimating}
     (-m[=a]`t[i^]ng).]
     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.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           To enact a statute of that which he dares not seem to
           approve, even to legitimate vice.        --Milton.
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