单词 | legitimate |
释义 | legitimateadj.adv.n. A. adj. 1. a. Conforming to the law or to rules; sanctioned or authorized by law or right principles; lawful; proper. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > [adjective] righteOE kindc1300 rightfulc1330 truec1384 righteous1391 lawfula1400 just?1435 legitimec1450 legitimatea1460 verya1466 justc1540 reable1581 sib1701 competent1765 society > law > rule of law > [adjective] > in accordance with the law lawlya1250 leefulc1275 leal1352 lawfula1398 leesome?a1400 lisiblea1420 legitimec1450 legitimatea1460 coursable1478 licit1483 legal1671 above boarda1695 enabled1729 legit1907 a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 539 (MED) This werk they calle a dike tumultuary; To stynte a rore, and if the foo be kene, Legytymat dykinge [L. legitima fossa] is necessary. 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke ii. ii. f. xxxviii He was compelled to be consecrated preest, and so was the election legitimate, when he was kyng & preest. 1568 W. Fulwood Enimie Idlenesse iii. f. 105v I knowing hir worthy of a husband, haue thought good this yere to mary hir, and to giue hir to Hely Loyer, for his legitimate and lawfull spouse. 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 13 An evill that should last so long, might in some sort seeme to be made Legitimate. 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 17 The Text therefore uses this phrase, that they shall bee one flesh, to justify and make legitimat the rites of Mariage bed. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 257 A Legitimate Husband. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. vi. 171 The Khalifa of Bagdad..the legitimate Successor of Mahomet. 1793 tr. in Beawes's Civil Hist. Spain & Portugal I. xx. 527 The Pilots, Boatswains, and other Sea Officers, who shall have legitimate Appointments..shall be free from entering the Lotting. 1832 W. Irving Alhambra I. 79 They [sc. the Moors] are a nation..without a legitimate country or a name. 1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 436 There is..a legitimate way of influencing the will. 1894 Congress. Rec. 25 Apr. 4098/1 Is it a legitimate expenditure of the public money? 1940 W. V. T. Clark Ox-bow Incident ii. 43 We must act in a reasoned and legitimate manner, not as a lawless mob. 1974 S. Terkel Working iii. 134 I'm the element that stands between the legitimate person and the criminal. 2012 Independent 24 Nov. 1/3 But town hall chiefs warned the moves could backfire by taking business away from legitimate shops and market stalls. b. Normal, regular; conformable to a recognized standard type.spec. †(a) (of a gun) having the correct proportion between barrel and bore (cf. bastard adj. 4a) (obsolete); †(b) (of a disease) = exquisite adj. (obsolete); †(c) (British Horse Racing) designating the season for flat racing (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > other characteristics hoteOE redeOE foulOE elvishc1386 dryc1400 whitec1450 Naples1507 shaking1528 cold1569 exquisite1583 unpure1583 waterish1583 wandering1585 legitimate1615 sulphureous1625 tetrous1637 cagastrical1662 medical1676 ambulatory1684 ebullient1684 frantic1709 animated1721 progressive1736 cagastric1753 vegetative1803 left-handed1804 specific1804 subacute1811 animate1816 gregarious1822 vernal1822 ambilateral1824 subchronic1831 regressive1845 nummular1866 postoperative1872 ambulant1873 non-surgical1888 progredient1891 spodogenous1897 spodogenic19.. non-invasive1932 early-onset1951 adult-onset1957 non-specific1964 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > conformity to or with a pattern, etc. > [adjective] > conforming to a standard rule > standard canonical1553 canonial1589 normal1598 standard1603 legitimate1615 classic1648 legitime1651 classical1751 canonic1850 normative1852 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > [adjective] > accurately so named > of disease exquisite1583 legitimate1615 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 334 I call that a lawfull or legitimate birth which commeth in due time, & that illigitimate which happeneth before or after the due time. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. 64 Gunners call them Legitimate Pieces, as have due length of their Chase, according to the height of their bores; Bastard Pieces are such as have shorter Chases, than the Proportion of their Bore doth require. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician v. 161 The Physician must not use astringents, in a legitimate Burning fever. 1724 J. Maubray Female Physician xxxviii. 159 That Assertion of a Legitimate Birth's requiring, not only a certain and prefinite Number of Days, but also of Hours and Minutes. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Delivery A Legitimate Delivery, is that which happens at the just Term, i. e. in the 10th Lunar Month. 1824 Hymns Suppl. Coll. Psalms (ed. 10) Pref. p. xv The Hymns..were sung in the Christian Church for more than a thousand years before that intrusion of the Old and New Versions, which silenced the legitimate music of the Church. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 468 Tillotson still keeps his place as a legitimate English classic. 1888 Sportsman 28 Nov. (Farmer) The winding up of the legitimate season. 1898 A. E. T. Watson Turf vi. 129 The seasons used to be distinguished as the ‘legitimate’ and ‘illegitimate’, but the expressions are less common than they were. 1928 Cent. Mag. Aug. 452/2 Scores of legitimate proprietary medicines..are used, in conjunction with rare eloquence, to wheedle dimes and dollars from the stay-at-homes. 1939 H. J. Massingham Eng. Countryside iv. 73 These are the legitimate South Downs, the over-written and exploited range. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. 24 Nor is it [sc. the city] avoiding the inevitable responsibility of building a smaller legitimate house. 2014 Guardian 4 Oct. 36/1 With 6,000 or more new tagged videos uploaded to YouTube each day, GoPro-ing is now a legitimate phenomenon. c. Of a monarch, sovereignty, etc.: justified or validated by the strict principle of hereditary right. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [adjective] > resting on hereditary right legitimatea1643 a1643 J. Spelman Case of Affaires (1644) 11 The regular working of true legitimate Soveraignitie. 1722 J. Henley tr. R. A. de Vertot Crit. Hist. Establishm. Bretons I. ii. 238 By what Authority has he put those Phantoms in the Places of the Kings of France, the legitimate Sovereigns of all Bretagne? 1794 W. Beaumont tr. J.-J. Barthélemy Trav. Anacharsis (ed. 2) IV. xl. 39 He refused an honour to which he had a legitimate title by his birth. 1821 H. Coleridge in London Mag. Nov. 477/2 We like the style of the Legitimate Poets, as we respect the courts of Legitimate Monarchs. 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred II. iii. vi. 90 But in these days a great capitalist has deeper roots than a sovereign prince, unless he is very legitimate. 1860 Sat. Rev. 14 Apr. 457/1 It is not in irony, but in sober earnest, that we express our belief, that any throne is, in practice, called legitimate which has not had the consent of the nation to its..existence. 1912 P. Allen (title) The last legitimate King of France. 1971 K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic vii. 195 Only the legitimate king could heal the scrofulous. 2009 A. Weir Mistress of Monarchy iv. 96 Constance had been willed the throne of Castile by her father, King Pedro, and was regarded as its legitimate queen by his followers. d. Designating or relating to art accorded superior status on the grounds of aesthetic merit or serious intent. (a) Conventional theatre or drama (as opposed to musical comedy, farce, etc.), esp. in the legitimate drama: the body of plays, Shakespearean or other, that have a recognized theatrical and literary merit. Also: designating or relating to a theatre which presents plays of this type. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [adjective] > having recognized merit legitimate1751 legit1908 1751 R. Hurd Notes in Horace Epistola ad Augustum 91 The form of the Greek..which was incorporated into the legitimate drama, and found essential to its true form. 1812 Theatr. Inquisitor Oct. 72 Mr. E. treads closely upon the heels of the legitimate stage. 1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) Pref. p. xviii (note) While I was in the sub-committee of Drury Lane Theatre,..we did our best to bring back the legitimate drama. 1884 E. Yates Recoll. & Experiences I. v. 211 My youthful admiration of Shakespeare and the legitimate drama. 1922 I. Goldberg Drama of Transition 354 This pattern was to cling to the Yiddish stage with a grip that long stifled all genuine progress towards the legitimate drama. 1947 K. S. Walker Brief for Ballet 79 Most dancers can vary themselves surprisingly, and enjoy it, and they are typed far less than is the case on the legitimate stage. 1952 N.Y. Herald Tribune 28 Aug. 16/7 A revision of New York City's building code to spur the construction of new legitimate theaters. 1972 N.Y. Times 3 Nov. 1/1 The new hotel would include..a legitimate theater. 1975 Scottish Field Jan. 9/1 With his feet now firmly planted in both acting spheres—the so-called legitimate theatre and the pantomime lark—this young-looking veteran [sc. Rikki Fulton]..feels fit to accept any professional challenge. 1999 J. Glavin After Dickens (2004) 114 Ultimately, the legitimate drama found itself depending on something akin to circus to keep itself alive. (b) Music regarded as serious, esp. as distinct from jazz or popular music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [adjective] > classical or serious classical1829 legit1908 legitimate1913 straight1926 longhair1938 serious1960 1913 Musical Times 1 May 316 If theatre managers were to show their respect for legitimate music, and at the same time their disrespect..for flippant and irrelevant music, we should soon arrive..at a reasonable behaviour on the part of audiences. 1927 Melody Maker Apr. 359/2 The number lends itself exceptionally well to the symphonic treatment it has been given, the orchestration is very fine and the modulated passages and general arrangement make it, although a little too ‘legitimate’ for dancing, perfect from a concert point of view. 1933 Fortune Aug. 94 Other jazz heroes such as the Dorseys..have become more or less legitimate musicians for radio purposes. 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues App. I. 341 The New Orleans drum patterns..were closest to ‘legitimate’ music. 1969 New Yorker 20 Dec. 52/3 It would have been interesting if he had made similar measurements during a performance by a ‘commercial’—that is, a jazz or dance-band—player..to compare with those of a ‘legitimate’, or symphonic, player. 2015 J. Church Music Direct. for Stage ii. 38 There is far more employment for stage music directors than for conductors of legitimate music. e. Sanctioned by the laws of reasoning; logically admissible or inferable. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [adjective] logical?a1513 legitime1532 logic1570 legitimate1774 logic1869 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > argument, source of conviction > [adjective] > strong, valid, convincing justa1413 pregnanta1425 well-disposedc1449 pregnablea1500 legitime1532 concludent1571 potent1609 solid1615 concluding1620 valida1648 valuable1647 conclusive1649 cogent1659 legitimate1774 well-taken1789 1774 T. Reid Brief Acct. Aristotle's Logic iii. §3, in Ld. Kames Sketches Hist. Man II. iii. 198 There is only one legitimate mode in which an universal affirmative proposition can be proved. 1797 Encycl. Brit. x. 221/2 If the first principles be clear and evident, and every syllogism in some legitimate mode or figure, the conclusion of the whole must infallibly be admitted. 1814 D. Stewart Elem. Philos. Human Mind II. iii. §1. 247 Every such process of reasoning..may be resolved into a series of legitimate syllogisms. 1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. ii. ix. 249 This bloody catastrophe was a legitimate result of the policy which he advised. 1910 Michigan Rep. 159 349 We have gone carefully over the testimony and find nothing from which a legitimate inference can be drawn. 1952 R. L. Wilder Introd. Found. Math. iv. 88 Some mathematicians do not admit the existence of an uncountable set of real numbers as a legitimate consequence of the argument. 2009 S. Duck & D. T. McMahan Basics of Communication xiii. 378 When using inductive reasoning, a sufficient number of examples or instances must exist from which to draw a legitimate conclusion. f. In weakened sense: valid or acceptable; justifiable, reasonable. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > possibility > [adjective] > being within reason reasonablea1382 legitimate1809 society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > [adjective] justified?1531 well-justified1644 legitimate1809 well-warranted1876 1809 Monthly Rev. July 327 This laughing bard has employed the term Agriculturism to denote a bastard kind of Agriculture, which has nothing really useful belonging to it, and therefore becomes a legitimate object of ridicule. 1847 New Sporting Mag. July 82 The system of adopting leggism as a legitimate part and parcel of horse-racing is one that must soon explode. 1864 Sat. Rev. 18 445/2 Objurgating impotence has always been a legitimate subject for ridicule. 1894 Daily News 17 Jan. 3/1 The most nosey visitor has no legitimate ground for offence from organic causes. 1934 G. Greene It's a Battlefield ii. 103 They were careful never to give him reason for legitimate complaints; they sprang to his orders as they would never have sprung to the orders of a man they liked. 1958 P. Gibbs Curtains of Yesterday xvii. 143 I have a perfectly legitimate reason for coming.., but what's yours, old boy? 1995 Daily Tel. 14 Mar. 17/7 It is legitimate to abridge a classic, so long as it is done with tact and sympathy,..just as it is legitimate to novelise an original screenplay. 2. a. Of a child: having the status of one born to parents lawfully married to each other, entitled in law to full filial rights; of a parent: lawfully married to the other parent of a child; of status, descent, etc.: of or through such parents or children.By the Legitimacy Acts of 1926 and 1959 a child born of unmarried parents becomes legitimate if they subsequently marry. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > legitimate full-bornlOE born in (or under or out of) wedlockc1275 kindlya1300 mulierc1400 legitimatea1464 mulieryc1475 lawfulc1480 naturala1500 mulierly1506 lawfully1512 native1567 loyal1608 lineala1616 full-begotten1636 (on) the right side of the blanket1842 a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 205 Of þis woman cam many childirn, whech were aftir legittimat—so semeth it þat þei were bore befor þis mariage. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxv. f. cxlvii This kynge wyllyam vsed alwey lemmans wherefore he dyed without Issu legyttymat. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. ix. f. 137 The children of their owne wyues, they counte to bee not legitimate. 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. v. sig. K2v Thy true begotten, most legitimate And loued issue. 1683 Britanniæ Speculum 173 By Lineal and Legitimate Descent the true and unquestionable Heir. 1734 R. Keith Hist. Affairs Church & State Scotl. ii. xii. 403 Lady Lochlevin..bragged besides, that she herself was King James V's. lawful wife, and her Son..his legitimate Issue, and true Heir of the Crown. 1762 D. Hume Hist. Eng. to Henry VII II. xii. 54 The common law had deemed all those bastards who were born before wedlock: By the canon law they were legitimate. 1838 E. W. Lane in tr. Thousand & One Nights (1839) I. i. Notes62 The offspring of his female slave..if begotten by him..he may recognise as his own legitimate child. 1885 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 29 270 Had been the lawful wife of the testator, and Adelinda his legitimate daughter by her. 1920 E. O. Lundberg & K. F. Lenroot Illegitimacy as Child-welfare Probl. I. U.S. Dept. Labor: Children's Bureau Publ. No. 66. 41 The Norwegian law..gives a child born out of wedlock the same right of inheritance that is given a child of legitimate birth. 1968 J. J. Scarisbrick Henry VIII xiv. 484 He showed no sign of the tuberculosis which carried off..his legitimate son and heir Edward. 2014 Sunday Times Mag. (Nexis) 7 Dec. In most countries of Europe..it is virtually impossible to disinherit a legitimate child. b. Having real existence; being in accordance with appearance; genuine, not spurious. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > [adjective] > genuine, real soothc888 soothlyc888 soothfastc1175 germanec1384 truea1398 sickera1400 upright?a1500 uncounterfeita1542 righteous1543 legitimate1551 truepennya1556 arrant1570 uncounterfeited1571 real1573 current1578 genuinal1599 unforged1610 unpretended1611 legitime1614 unabusinga1628 Lubish1632 genuine1639 undissembled1651 undissimulate1652 ingenuine1661 infallacious1677 real live1684 unfalsified1688 unmistaken1694 pukka1776 undissimulated1776 unassumed1818 uncynical1824 Simon Pure1834 sure-enough1837 unsimulated1840 straight-out1848 true blue1852 veritable1862 really (and) truly1864 authentic1868 true-metal1868 kosher1896 twenty-four carat1900 honest to goodness1905 echt1916 dinky-di1918 McCoy1928 twenty-two carat1962 right1969 1551 Bible (Matthew's) Apocrypha To Rdr. They are not receaued nor taken as legyttymate and leafull, as wel of the Hebrues as of the whole Churche. 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxvi. vii. 1036 By the taste..we..distinguish the true legitimate [medicines] from the adulterate. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 327 Mr. B. maintains Astypala to be a legitimate word, because we read it Ἀστυπάχη in the present Copy of Scylax. 1804 European Mag. 45 347/2 The above remarks do not apply to what I shall call collections of legitimate remains. 1858 Amer. Publishers' Circular & Lit. Gaz. 20 Feb. 91/2 It is the only genuine legitimate edition in the English language. 1914 T. P. Terry Terry's Japanese Empire (1919) 760 Legitimate stones are to be had by those who know them, but care must be exercised that glass copies are not substituted for them. 1988 Weekly World News 22 Nov. 33 A scarce, legitimate gem stone from the mines of the State of Golas. B. adv. = legitimately adv. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adverb] > legitimately muliera1450 muliery?1530 legitimate1574 1574 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 427 in Parl. Papers 1884–5 (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 Both he and his chyldren of his body legytymat begotten. 1859 W. Chadwick Life & Times D. Defoe ii. 58 If he had been a vagrant bastard instead of a legitimate-born man and son-in-law of a King of England, they could not have treated him with more jealousy or suspicion. 1884 R. West & J. G. Bühler tr. Digest Hindu Law (ed. 3) II. 1012 The husband and wife must be joint parents of the legitimate begotten son. 1920 Pacific Reporter 188 44/2 Those acts which are usual to the father of a legitimate child and legitimate born child. 2003 S. Maclean Kingship & Politics in Late Ninth Cent. viii. 231 Only legitimate-born male Carolingians were perceived to be rightful candidates for kingship throughout the ninth century. C. n. 1. a. A legitimate child. Also: a legitimate heir (also in figurative sense). In quot. 1695: a legitimate member of the royal family. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > legitimate child mulierc1400 legitimate1583 legit1955 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Hvv I had rather we had many legittimats, than many illegittimates. 1616 J. Selden Notes upon Fortescue 48 (margin) in R. Mulcaster tr. J. Fortescue De Laudibus Legum Angliæ Many Bastards are better then legitimats. 1695 tr. Present State Europe Jan. 28 As for the Persons that are to be tax'd, they are divided into Twenty two Classes's. In the first are comprehended the Dauphin, the Duke of Orleans, the Duke of Chartres, the Prince of Conti, the Legitimates of France, the Chancellor and the General Farmers. 1703 Athenian Oracle I. 222/2 The Cross bar must have been chang'd from the Bastards Scutcheon to the Legitimates. 1771 tr. A.-J. Pernety Hist. Voy. Malouine Islands 146 These children inherit nearly as the legitimates do. 1842 C. Whitehead Richard Savage III. vi. 180 Their legitimates do them small honour, sometimes. 1865 Dublin Univ. Mag. 65 8/1 Legitimates and natural children were brought up..or shaken-up together. 1912 J. Lisle tr. L. Miraglia Compar. Legal Philos. xx. 730 It follows, of course, that the legitimated son has the same rights as the legitimates. 1964 P. Shaffer Royal Hunt of Sun i. v. 17 The clothed hunt the naked; the legitimates hunt the bastards, and put down the word Gentleman to blot up the blood. 2011 R. Kerridge in M. Anderson & E. Arroyo i Amayuelas Law Succession vii. 141 He can choose to benefit..the legitimates rather than the illegitimates, or vice versa, and so on. b. A supporter or advocate of political legitimacy, esp. the strict hereditary succession to a throne, a legitimist; spec. a supporter of the claim of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty to the French throne. Also: a legitimate monarch. Cf. sense A. 1c. Now historical.In quot. 1998: a member of a faction of the Ohio Democratic Republican party in the early 19th cent. which claimed the right to determine the acceptability of candidates for office. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > [noun] > legitimate legitimate1817 society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > monarchism > types of > adherent of juredivinist1681 legitimate1817 legitimatist1830 legitimist1831 hereditist1874 1817 Analectic Mag. Oct. 274 The Quarterly, belongs to the ultra-royalists, the legitimates, the treasury-bench optimists. 1830 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Apr. 525 The experiment of what has been termed constitutional government, has been tried and failed. The legitimates refused this, while they might have had it. 1850 R. W. Emerson Napoleon in Representative Men vi. 237 No longer the throne was occupied..by a small class of legitimates. 1875 Papers relating to Foreign Relations U.S. (U.S. Dept. of State) I. 461 Great was the joy of the legitimates and the Bonapartists..when they saw..that all the efforts to pass constitutional laws were likely to prove abortive. 1932 China Weekly Rev. 18 June 91 The latter group [sc. those who maintain that the Czar must be Grand Duke Ciril] are known as the legitimates. 1998 D. J. Ratcliffe Party Spirit in Frontier Republic viii. 217 The Legitimates persuaded enough Republicans in the northern counties, especially in Coshocton County, to desert Wright. 2003 S. Zonneveld Sir Brooke Boothby ix. 423 Sir Brooke referred to King Frederick VI of Denmark.., who supported Napoleon, and as a consequence was forced by the Legitimates to cede Norway to Sweden by the Treaty of Kiel. c. Australian slang. A person sent to Australia as a convict (i.e. for legitimate or legal reasons). Cf. legitimacy n. 4; illegitimate n. b. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > transported convict transport felon1766 transport1767 croppy1800 canary1827 legitimate1827 canary bird1839 transportee1883 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxiv. 116 Our society is divided into circles as in England... Next, we have the legitimates, or cross-breds,—namely, such as have legal reasons for visiting this colony; and the illegitimates, or such as are free from that stigma. 1861 Meliora 3 257/1 Those who had legal reasons for being forwarded to the colony were Legitimates; while those not so favoured by the law of the mother-country were styled Illegitimates. 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. ii. 41 A large number of synonyms for convict became current, among them..legitimate (i.e. a person with a legitimate or legal reason for coming to Australia). 1986 R. Hughes Fatal Shore (1988) 346 In the 1820s, the polite form was government man or legitimate, and these were later displaced by exile or even empire-builder. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > [noun] > one's right(s) i-rihtsc1000 rightc1300 judgementc1350 duec1450 droit1481 shayth1542 say1614 legitimate1650 pretension1710 entitlement1782 1650 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης (ed. 2) i. 13 Many Princes have bin rigorous in laying taxes on thir Subjects by the head, but of any King heertofore that made a levy upon thir witt, and seisd it as his own legitimat, I have not whom beside to instance. 3. Theatre slang. A legitimate theatre or actor. Also: †a writer of legitimate drama (obsolete). Also (with the): = the legitimate drama at sense A. 1d(a). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > other types or branches satyric1693 legitimate1826 boulevard theatre1838 satyr drama1839 tragicomic1842 costume drama1847 Sardoodledom1895 slice of life1895 cape and sword (also cape and cloak)1898 total theatre1935 epic theatre1938 Theatre of Cruelty1954 music theatre1957 psychodramatics1957 reader's theatre1957 metatheatre1960 Theatre of the Absurd1961 nautanki1962 Theatre of Fact1966 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] > other types of theatre little theatre1569 private house1604 private playhouse1609 amphitheatre1611 private theatre1633 droll-house1705 summer theatre1761 show shop1772 national theatre1816 minor1821 legitimate1826 patent house1827 patent theatre1836 showboat1839 music theatre1849 penny-gaff1856 saloon theatre1864 leg shop1871 people's theatre1873 nickelodeon1888 repertory theatre1891 studio theatre1891 legit1897 blood-tub1906 rep1906 small-timer1910 grind house1923 theatrette1927 indie1928 vaude1933 straw hat1935 theatre-in-the-round1948 straw-hatter1949 bughouse1952 theatre-restaurant1958 dinner theatre1959 theatre club1961 black box1971 pub theatre1971 performance space1972 1826 F. Reynolds Life & Times I. 265 Certain pedants, however, demand the classical, legitimate drama. Now, I ask what, and where, is it?..Are Cibber, Sir Richard Steel, Voltaire, and Racine, the real legitimates? 1831 Metropolitan 1 159 In addition to the Haymarket and English Opera House, those usual legitimates of the summer, we have now the Garrick, the Pavilion, the Milton Street. 1843 Knickerbocker Mag. 21 485 Such honors as the grateful hearts of all admirers of the ‘true legitimate’ can bestow, have been showered upon this son of genius. 1877 Era Almanack 97 Always willing to patronise the legitimate. 1880 Dial 1 109/1 The important part which elocution played on the stage during the reign of the ‘legitimate’ is well illustrated by some of the anecdotes which Mr. Murdoch has preserved. 1909 P. G. Williams in Sat. Evening Post 5 June 17/2 The vaudeville actor is much more thrifty than his colleague in the legitimate. 1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage xvi. 207 The principal comedian of Have a Nibble..scandalizes the ‘legitimates’ by discarding the jacket of his sprightly plus-four suit. 1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain v. 84 I haven't got the wind for dancing..and the ‘legitimate’ gives me a pain in the neck. 1984 F. G. Couvares Remaking of Pittsburgh iii. 41 The legitimates made their melodramatic offerings as sensational as possible. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). legitimatev. 1. transitive. To make lawful, to legalize; to authorize by legal enactment. In early use: to give (a person) a legal claim to (something). ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > [verb (transitive)] > give legal right to legitimate1494 intitule1584 enright1587 interess1587 invest1587 endow1601 patent1789 society > law > rule of law > [verb (transitive)] > legalize leala1375 legitimate1596 civilize1643 legitimize1646 justify1651 legalize1652 legitimatize1693 decriminalize1972 1494 in W. Fraser Lennox (1874) II. 152 Ane lachfull dispensation to legittimate the matrimone. 1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xlii. f. cxv Whether the pope maye legytymate one to temporall thynges. 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xi. lxviii. 287 With marrage, that legitimates our Propagation. 1657 T. Wall Comment on Times 65 These men can do more then God, they can legitimate any wickedness. 1680 W. Petyt Britannia Languens iv. 37 Our Merchants..have gotten an Act of Parliament to Legitimate the exporting of Bullion. 1715 R. Bentley Serm. Popery 11 Nay a particular Edition shall be legitimated and consecrated. 1798 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 25 566 Their feudal laws, by legitimating orderly gradations of oppression, completed the misfortune of the times. 1809 J. Adams Inadmissible Princ. King of England's Proclam. 7 What is impressment of seamen?.. No parliament ever dared to legitimate or sanction it. 1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Sept. 10 He not only supplies himself with a magazine of arms, but with a portfolio of judges' orders legitimating their use. 1922 F. Franklin What Prohibition has done to Amer. viii. 85 By which means beer and light wines would be legitimated. 1972 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 26 Mar. 7/2 It frightens me because no notion in world history has ever legitimated the use of marijuana. 2009 R. Waterson Paths & Rivers xii. 262 It is their involvement that legitimates the marriage in the eyes of the community. 2. transitive. To give the status of a legitimate child to, as by subsequent marriage; to establish the legitimacy of (a person) by an authoritative declaration or decree. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > [verb (transitive)] > legalize > make (person) legitimate legitimate1577 legitimize1646 legitimatize1693 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > have a child [verb (transitive)] > render legitimate legitimate1577 legitimize1646 legitimatize1693 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1090/1 The duke of Lancaster caused to bee legittimated the issue whiche he had begotte of Katherin Swinfort, before she was his wife. 1597 T. Beard Theatre Gods Iudgements ii. xix. 261 With the Popes aduouch, who legitimated him. 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus ii. 15 Straining their wittes to legitimate bastardly broods of opinions. 1663 S. Pepys Diary 9 Nov. (1971) IV. 376 It is much talked of, that the King entends to legitimate the Duke of Monmouth. 1681 W. Lawrence Right of Primogeniture Pref. sig. A4 Cohabitation for any time is so high a Presumption of Marriage, as it Legitimates the Son. 1701 D. Defoe Orig. Power People in Misc. (1703) 149 Another Parliament Legitimated Queen Elizabeth. 1760 Mod. Part Universal Hist. XXII. ii. 57 Pope Urban..legitimated the children of Donna Beatrix. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. viii. 280 One object of which was to legitimate the duke of Lancaster's ante-nuptial children. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. viii. 175 The children..were according to the law..legitimated by the subsequent marriage of their parents. 1901 F. W. Rolfe Chron. House Borgia 15 A bastard, legitimated and recognised by his father, was as valid and capable as the son of a lawful marriage. 1959 Daily Tel. 22 July 1/5 The House of Lords..decided that the child of an adulterous union could be legitimated by the subsequent marriage of its parents. 2009 B. A. West Encycl. Peoples Asia & Oceania I. 187/1 The family of the new husband must pay a bride price.., which..legitimates any children the couple may have. 3. transitive. To affirm or show to be legitimate; to authorize or justify by word or example; to serve as justification for. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > justify [verb (transitive)] > justify or sanction warrant1578 privilege1594 warrantise1600 legitimate1611 sanctify1701 sanction1876 legitimize1892 1611 W. Sclater Key to Key of Script. 185 An hypocrite..countenanceth, yea legittimateth, wilfull rebellion against the law of God. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Dying iii. §8. 141 Our B. Lord was pleased to legitimate fear to us, by his agony and prayers in the garden. 1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xxvii. 466 The Gospel legitimates no hopes of salvation, but such as are accompanied with serious endeavours of mortification. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 304 Necessity legitimates my Advice; for it is the only Way to save our Lives. a1763 W. Shenstone Oeconomy i, in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 291 Unless œconomy's consent Legitimate expence. 1791 J. Mackintosh Vindiciæ Gallicæ i. 63 The approbation of the men legitimates the Government. 1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. II. xiv. 268 National safety legitimates every mean employed upon it. 1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles Prelim. Ess. 4 He warns him that Pharaoh will require him to legitimate his mission. 1910 B. H. Bode Outl. Logic xv. 244 Tennyson argues that without the belief in immortality, ‘earth is darkness at the core,’ and he seems to imply that this fact legitimates the belief. 1974 J. I. M. Stewart Gaudy (1976) xi. 221 My companion had up his sleeve something that would legitimate his employing my Christian name at a second meeting. 2003 Kitchen Sink Winter 48/2 Finally legitimated as dialects, Ebonics and Spanglish have gained currency in popular culture. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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