legitimeadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈlɛdʒᵻtɪm/, U.S.

/ˈlɛdʒəˌtɪm/

Forms: late Middle English–1500s legityme, late Middle English–1500s legytyme, late Middle English– legitime, 1500s legyttyme, 1500s legytym, 1500s–1600s legittime, 1600s (Scottish) 1700s–1800s legitim.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French legitime; Latin lēgitimus.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French legitime, legittime (13th cent. in Old French; French légitime ) legal, lawful (second half of the 13th cent. in Old French), born in lawful wedlock (end of the 13th cent. or earlier), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin lēgitimus of or concerned with the law, legal, legally prescribed or recognized, having legal force, valid in law, born in lawful wedlock, (of actions) permitted by law, prescribed by custom or usage, regular, proper, prescribed by the rules of art, genuine, real < lēgi- , alternative stem of lēx law (see legal adj.) + -timus , suffix (see maritime adj.). Compare Catalan legítim (late 14th cent.), Spanish legítimo (end of the 12th cent.), Portuguese legítimo (15th cent.), Italian legittimo (end of the 13h cent.). Compare later legitimate adj., which largely superseded the present word.In state legitime in quot. 1532 at sense A. 2b after post-classical Latin status legitimus (1541 or earlier), synonym of classical Latin stātus lēgālis (Quintilian), denoting a subcategory of legal rhetoric or legal technical language. In use as noun (compare sense B.) after post-classical Latin legitima, feminine (12th cent., short for legitima pars legitimate part); compare French légitime, feminine noun (late 16th cent. in Middle French).

A. adj.

a. Chiefly of an heir: = legitimate adj. 2a. Also in figurative context. Now rare.In quot. c1400 as noun.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > rule of law > [adjective] > rendering legal > legalized > of a person

legitimec1400

legalized1788

legitimatized1791

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > legitimate > made legitimate

legitimec1400

legitimated1598

legitimatized1791

c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xi. l. 210 Þe grace That leelle legitime by lawe may cleyme.

1536 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1822) I. App. lxxvi. 182 The Kings highnes should make and declare the said Lady Mary to bee legitime.

1568 Mary Queen of Scots Let. 18 Jan. in H. Campbell Love Lett. Mary Queen of Scots (1824) 30 To..cause him [sc. the Erle of Murray] to be declarit legitime to succeid unto the crowne of Scotland.

1658 W. Sanderson Compl. Hist. Life King Charles 230 He married Aufeme..and begat of her two Sons..infeoffing upon them great Estates of Crown-lands, intailed onely to their Heirs male legitime, or to return to the Crown.

1756 G. Harris tr. Justinian Institutions iii. iv. 24 When there are many legitime heirs, and some renounce the inheritance..then the shares or portions of such persons fall by the right of accretion to those, who have accepted the inheritance.

1890 D. Nasmith tr. Justinian in Outl. Rom. Hist. from Romulus to Justinian 490 His own legitime heir would not be admitted to succeed him.

1997 T. van Doan in W. Miaoyang et al. Chinese Cultural Trad. & Modernization xii. 137 The modern person seems not yet to have had time for reflection on the ideology of scientism, even if he has witnessed its atrocities, destructive force of scientism and its legitime heir, technology.

†b. = legitimate adj. 2b. Obsolete. 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

1614 W. Barclay Nepenthes sig. A4^v To apparell some European plants with Indian coats, and to enstall them in shops as righteous and legittime Tabacco.

†2.

a. = legitimate adj. 1a. Obsolete.

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

c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 131 Engendred in legitime mariage.

1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. xxi. sig. cc.i If after the legittime appellacyon he hath proceded in cause.

?c1535 L. Cox Arte Rhethorycke (new ed.) sig. Avi^v Aristotele..deuideth Justice in .ii...kyndes, one that he calleth iustice legitime or legall, and an other whyche he called equyte.

1660 J. Lloyd Treat. Episcopacy 37 He calls it [sc. the Lord's Prayer] the legitime and ordinary prayer.

1669 Treaty betw. Chas. II & Dk. Savoy in N. Magens Ess. Insurances (1755) II. 639 To constitute Sir John Finch Kn^t..his true and legitime Plenipotentiary.

1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. J^v The Elders and Brethren..were assembled in a legitime Council at Ierusalem.

1756 G. Harris tr. Justinian Institutions iii. ii. 17 Legitime succession should not be denied to agnates in the inheritances of agnates.

1795 G. Wythe Decis. Cases Virginia 50 A species of right never adopted for legitime before 1779.

b. Rhetoric. Of or concerned with the law, legal. Obsolete. rare.

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

1532 L. Cox Art or Crafte Rhetoryke sig. F.i^v State legitime is whan the controuersy standeth in definicion.

c. = legitimate adj. 1b. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

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

1651 E. Prestwich in tr. Seneca Hippolitus Ep. Ded. sig. A4^v A Legitime Poem often falls a sacrifice to the many-headed and no brained Multitude.

d. Of a person: obedient to law. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > rule of law > [adjective] > law-abiding

lawfulc1430

legitime1677

legal1756

law-abiding1839

crimeless1887

straight1977

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV 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.

B. n.

Civil Law and Scots Law. The portion of a deceased person's estate to which a child of his or hers is legally entitled, regardless of the terms of the will.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited > part to which child entitled

child's part1509

bairn-part1533

legitime1681

1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. iii. viii. 44 The bairns' part is their legitima, or portion natural,..which, because the law..determines it, it is called the legitim.

a1688 J. Nisbet Some Doubts & Questions in Law (1698) 11 If a Bastard's Relict and Bairns, will have their Legitime, though he cannot make a Testament? Answer. Affirmativé.

1761 tr. Frederician Code II. ii. vii. 270 School-fees should not be included in the legitim, because they belong to the education of children.

a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) II. 606 That which falls to the children, is sometimes, from the Roman law, styled the legitim, or the portion given them by the law.

a1832 A. Polson Eng. Law in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) 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.

1839 J. Bouvier Law Dict. U.S.A. II. 293/2 Preterition, civil law, the omission by a testator of some one of his heirs who is entitled to a legitime..in the succession.

1881 Times 9 Feb. 10 The Yorke Prize for 1880..was offered for the best essay on ‘The History of the Law of Legitim’.

1956 Scotsman 18 July 4 The adopted child would not be able to claim legitim in the adopter's intestate estate.

2010 BusinessWorld (Philippines) (Nexis) 1 Nov. In the Philippines, the inheritance laws secure a forced legitime of the deceased, which specifies the direct downward line of children living and represented.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	legitime
释义	legitimeadj.n. Brit. /ˈlɛdʒᵻtɪm/, U.S. /ˈlɛdʒəˌtɪm/ Forms: late Middle English–1500s legityme, late Middle English–1500s legytyme, late Middle English– legitime, 1500s legyttyme, 1500s legytym, 1500s–1600s legittime, 1600s (Scottish) 1700s–1800s legitim. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French legitime; Latin lēgitimus. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French legitime, legittime (13th cent. in Old French; French légitime ) legal, lawful (second half of the 13th cent. in Old French), born in lawful wedlock (end of the 13th cent. or earlier), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin lēgitimus of or concerned with the law, legal, legally prescribed or recognized, having legal force, valid in law, born in lawful wedlock, (of actions) permitted by law, prescribed by custom or usage, regular, proper, prescribed by the rules of art, genuine, real < lēgi- , alternative stem of lēx law (see legal adj.) + -timus , suffix (see maritime adj.). Compare Catalan legítim (late 14th cent.), Spanish legítimo (end of the 12th cent.), Portuguese legítimo (15th cent.), Italian legittimo (end of the 13h cent.). Compare later legitimate adj., which largely superseded the present word.In state legitime in quot. 1532 at sense A. 2b after post-classical Latin status legitimus (1541 or earlier), synonym of classical Latin stātus lēgālis (Quintilian), denoting a subcategory of legal rhetoric or legal technical language. In use as noun (compare sense B.) after post-classical Latin legitima, feminine (12th cent., short for legitima pars legitimate part); compare French légitime, feminine noun (late 16th cent. in Middle French). A. adj. 1. a. Chiefly of an heir: = legitimate adj. 2a. Also in figurative context. Now rare.In quot. c1400 as noun. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > [adjective] > rendering legal > legalized > of a person legitimec1400 legalized1788 legitimatized1791 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > legitimate > made legitimate legitimec1400 legitimated1598 legitimatized1791 c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xi. l. 210 Þe grace That leelle legitime by lawe may cleyme. 1536 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1822) I. App. lxxvi. 182 The Kings highnes should make and declare the said Lady Mary to bee legitime. 1568 Mary Queen of Scots Let. 18 Jan. in H. Campbell Love Lett. Mary Queen of Scots (1824) 30 To..cause him [sc. the Erle of Murray] to be declarit legitime to succeid unto the crowne of Scotland. 1658 W. Sanderson Compl. Hist. Life King Charles 230 He married Aufeme..and begat of her two Sons..infeoffing upon them great Estates of Crown-lands, intailed onely to their Heirs male legitime, or to return to the Crown. 1756 G. Harris tr. Justinian Institutions iii. iv. 24 When there are many legitime heirs, and some renounce the inheritance..then the shares or portions of such persons fall by the right of accretion to those, who have accepted the inheritance. 1890 D. Nasmith tr. Justinian in Outl. Rom. Hist. from Romulus to Justinian 490 His own legitime heir would not be admitted to succeed him. 1997 T. van Doan in W. Miaoyang et al. Chinese Cultural Trad. & Modernization xii. 137 The modern person seems not yet to have had time for reflection on the ideology of scientism, even if he has witnessed its atrocities, destructive force of scientism and its legitime heir, technology. †b. = legitimate adj. 2b. Obsolete. 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 1614 W. Barclay Nepenthes sig. A4^v To apparell some European plants with Indian coats, and to enstall them in shops as righteous and legittime Tabacco. †2. a. = legitimate adj. 1a. Obsolete. 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 c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 131 Engendred in legitime mariage. 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. xxi. sig. cc.i If after the legittime appellacyon he hath proceded in cause. ?c1535 L. Cox Arte Rhethorycke (new ed.) sig. Avi^v Aristotele..deuideth Justice in .ii...kyndes, one that he calleth iustice legitime or legall, and an other whyche he called equyte. 1660 J. Lloyd Treat. Episcopacy 37 He calls it [sc. the Lord's Prayer] the legitime and ordinary prayer. 1669 Treaty betw. Chas. II & Dk. Savoy in N. Magens Ess. Insurances (1755) II. 639 To constitute Sir John Finch Kn^t..his true and legitime Plenipotentiary. 1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. J^v The Elders and Brethren..were assembled in a legitime Council at Ierusalem. 1756 G. Harris tr. Justinian Institutions iii. ii. 17 Legitime succession should not be denied to agnates in the inheritances of agnates. 1795 G. Wythe Decis. Cases Virginia 50 A species of right never adopted for legitime before 1779. b. Rhetoric. Of or concerned with the law, legal. Obsolete. rare. 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 1532 L. Cox Art or Crafte Rhetoryke sig. F.i^v State legitime is whan the controuersy standeth in definicion. c. = legitimate adj. 1b. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ 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 1651 E. Prestwich in tr. Seneca Hippolitus Ep. Ded. sig. A4^v A Legitime Poem often falls a sacrifice to the many-headed and no brained Multitude. d. Of a person: obedient to law. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > [adjective] > law-abiding lawfulc1430 legitime1677 legal1756 law-abiding1839 crimeless1887 straight1977 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV 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. B. n. Civil Law and Scots Law. The portion of a deceased person's estate to which a child of his or hers is legally entitled, regardless of the terms of the will. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > that which is inherited > part to which child entitled child's part1509 bairn-part1533 legitime1681 1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. iii. viii. 44 The bairns' part is their legitima, or portion natural,..which, because the law..determines it, it is called the legitim. a1688 J. Nisbet Some Doubts & Questions in Law (1698) 11 If a Bastard's Relict and Bairns, will have their Legitime, though he cannot make a Testament? Answer. Affirmativé. 1761 tr. Frederician Code II. ii. vii. 270 School-fees should not be included in the legitim, because they belong to the education of children. a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) II. 606 That which falls to the children, is sometimes, from the Roman law, styled the legitim, or the portion given them by the law. a1832 A. Polson Eng. Law in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) 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. 1839 J. Bouvier Law Dict. U.S.A. II. 293/2 Preterition, civil law, the omission by a testator of some one of his heirs who is entitled to a legitime..in the succession. 1881 Times 9 Feb. 10 The Yorke Prize for 1880..was offered for the best essay on ‘The History of the Law of Legitim’. 1956 Scotsman 18 July 4 The adopted child would not be able to claim legitim in the adopter's intestate estate. 2010 BusinessWorld (Philippines) (Nexis) 1 Nov. In the Philippines, the inheritance laws secure a forced legitime of the deceased, which specifies the direct downward line of children living and represented. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.c1400
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