The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: legitimate)
Usage examples of "legitimated".
Dictionaries are but the depositories of words already legitimated by usage.
Their rule was that whenever their language furnished or adopted a root, all it's branches, in every part of speech were legitimated by giving them their appropriate terminations.
By contrast with the world of instantly perceived objects, my laboratory, although it seems real enough, is devoted to the production and isolation of such artificial phenomena, unnatural, created and given meaning only by my actions, legitimated though they be by three hundred years of scientific history and the collective effort of will and imagination of millions of scientists across the globe.
He would return to his father’s estate—his father had left no legitimate sons, after all, and there was no other to inherit—and Erlend must, of course, be legitimated, at once, in case he should die before he had any other children.
Black was quickly legitimated when the mass media adopted the new meaning.