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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.