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Miscreated; illegitimate; forged; as, miscreate titles. [Obs. or Poet.] Shak.

Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed. Spenser. Milton.

In the manner or condition of a mulier; in wedlock; legitimately. [Obs.]

accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death. What can be more natural than the circumstances in the behavior of those women who had lost their husbands on this fatal day Addison.…

y which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side. The pull is not a legitimate stroke, but bad cricket. R. A. Proctor.

clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching. I say the pulpit (in the sober use Of its legitimate, peculiar powers) Must stand acknowledged, while the world shall stand, The most important and effectual guard, Support, and ornament of virtue's cause. Cowper.

The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire. Who first seduced them to that foul revolt Milton.

- a term applied to a style of performance in which some tones are held longer than their legitimate time, while others are proportionally curtailed.

Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue. "Her spurious firstborn." Milton. Spurious primary, or Spurious quill (Zoöl.), the first, or outer, primary quill when rudimentary or much reduced in size, as in certain singing birds. -- Spurious wing (Zoöl.), the bastard wing, or alula.

Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.

to outgo; to surpass. Topping all others in boasting. Shak. Edmund the base shall top the legitimate. Shak.

Conformably to law; legally; legitimately. His innocent babe [is] truly begotten. Shak.

know the truth here of at large. Shak. The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material. Coleridge.

Having no acknowledged father; hence, illegitimate; spurious; bastard.

ess him. Alack, thou dost usurp authority. Shak. Another revolution, to get rid of this illegitimate and usurped government, would of course be perfectly justifiable. Burke.