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Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child.

In a illegitimate manner; unlawfully.

The act of illegitimating; bastardizing.

To render illegitimate; to bastardize.

Not injurious; harmless. [R.]

Not leviable; incapable of being imposed, or collected. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid. "A thrifty and illiberal hand." Mason.

Illiberality. [R.]

The state or quality of being illiberal; narrowness of mind; meanness; niggardliness. Bacon.

To make illiberal.

In a illiberal manner, ungenerously; uncharitably; parsimoniously.

The state of being illiberal; illiberality.

Not permitted or allowed; prohibited; unlawful; as, illicit trade; illicit intercourse; illicit pleasure. One illicit . . . transaction always leads to another. Burke. -- Il*lic"it*ly, adv. -- Il*lic"it*ness, n.

Illicit. [R.] Cotgrave.

atic and American magnoliaceous trees, having star-shaped fruit; star anise. The fruit of Illicium anisatum is used as a spice in India, and its oil is largely used in Europe for flavoring cordials, being almost identical with true oil of anise.

To enlighten. [Obs.]

Incapable of being limited or bounded; immeasurable; limitless; boundless; as, illimitable space. The wild, the irregular, the illimitable, and the luxuriant, have their appropriate force of beauty. De Quincey.

State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.

Not limited; interminable. Bp. Hall. -- Il*lim"it*ed*ness, n. The absoluteness and illimitedness of his commission was generally much spoken of. Clarendon.

A thin crust of some extraneous substance formed on minerals. [R.] A thin crust or illinition of black manganese. Kirwan.