illegitimatize
English
Etymology
illegitimate + -ize
Verb
illegitimatize (third-person singular simple present illegitimatizes, present participle illegitimatizing, simple past and past participle illegitimatized)
- (transitive) To render illegitimate; to bastardize.
Synonyms
- illegitimize
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for illegitimatize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)