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legitime, a. and n.|ˈlɛdʒɪtɪm|
Also 6 legytym, 6–7 legittime, 8–9 legitim.
[a. F. légitime adj. and n., ad. L. lēgitimus, f. lēg-, lex law.]
†A. adj. Obs.
1. = legitimate a. i. In early use absol. or quasi-n.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xi. 210 Þe grace That leelle legitime by lawe may cleyme. 1536in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. lxxvi. 182 The Kings highnes should make and declare the said Lady Mary to bee legitime. 1568Mary Let. Jan. in H. Campbell Love Lett. Mary Q. Scots App. (1824) 30 To..cause him [the Erle of Murray] to be declarit legitime to succeid unto the crowne of Scotland.
b. transf. Genuine: = legitimate 1 b.
1614W. Barclay Nepenthes in Arb. App. to Jas. I Counterbl. 116 To apparell some European plants with Indian coats, and to enstall them in shops as righteous and legittime Tabacco.
2. = legitimate 2.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. cxlii. (1869) 131 Engendred in legitime mariage. 1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) iv. xxi. 258 If after the legittime appellacyon he hath proceded in cause. c1530L. Cox Rhet. (1899) 46 Aristotle deuideth Justice in .ii. kyndes, one, legitime or legall, and an other, equyte. 1660J. Lloyd Prim. Episc. 37 He calls it [the Lord's Prayer] the legitime and ordinary prayer. 1669Treaty betw. Chas. II & Dk. Savoy in Magens Insurances (1755) II. 639 To constitute Sir John Finch Knt..his true and legitime Plenipotentiary. 1676Marvell Mr. Smirke I iij, The Elders and Brethren..were assembled in a legitime Council at Ierusalem. 1795Wythe Decis. Virginia 50 A species of right never adopted for legitime before 1779.
b. Of persons: Obedient to law.
1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. 47 Those things wherein the order and ornament or goodnesse of the mind consistes, we cal legal and Law: whence men become legitime and orderly.
c. = legitimate 2 b.
1651E. Prestwich Hippolitus Ep. Ded., A Legitime Poem often falls a sacrifice to the many-headed and no brained Multitude.
d. = legitimate 2 d.
c1530L. Cox Rhet. (1899) 82 State legitime is whan the controuersy standeth in definicyon.
B. n. Civil and Sc. Law. (See quot. 1845.) = L. lēgitima (pars).
a1768Erskine Inst. Law Scot. (1773) 606 That which falls to the children, is sometimes, from the Roman law, styled the legitim, or the portion given them by the law. 1845Polson Eng. Law in Encycl. Metrop. II. 851/1 Children are entitled..after their father's death, to a share of his moveable property, which is called their legitime, or portion natural, or bairns' part of gear. 1881Times 9 Feb. 10 The Yorke Prize for 1880..was offered for the best essay on ‘The History of the Law of Legitim’. |