v. 使合法；认为正当（legitimate 的过去式和过去分词，等于 legitimized）

Legitimate \Le*git"i*mate\ (-m[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Legitimated} (-m[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Legitimating}
(-m[=a]`t[i^]ng).]
To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the
position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by
legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child.

To enact a statute of that which he dares not seem to
approve, even to legitimate vice. --Milton.