Roman antiquity conceived these as under the care of priesthoods, legitimated by the State.
An idea does exist in some parts of Scotland, that children born out of wedlock must be "under the apron string" at the solemnisation of the marriage of their parents, before they can be legitimated per subsequens matrimonium.
He recommended his legitimated daughters to live together in concord, and I was the innocent cause of his saying something disagreeable to them.
When my son told her he was her father, she was transported with joy, fancying that she was the daughter of Seri and sister to the Chevalier; she thought, too, that she would be legitimated immediately.
This once done, the children of the King and of Madame de Montespan were legitimated in the same manner.
A long time had elapsed before she and her younger brother were legitimated by the King; I do not know for what reason.
There is at present no such legitimated money; Portugal coin being only current by private consent, so that any one who pleases may refuse to take it in payment.
In April, 1599, this boy was legitimated by letters-patent, which were duly registered by the complaisant Parlement of Paris.
Diane de France, Duchesse de Montmorency and d’Angoulême, legitimated daughter of Henri II by a Piedmontese girl called Filippa Duc, whom he had met during the campaign of 1537 in Italy.
Dictionaries are but the depositories of words already legitimatedby usage.
Duke went to Law with the legitimated Princes, and caus'd the Duke de Maine to be degraded from the Rank of Prince of the Blood, to which he had been promoted by an Arret solemnly register'd in Parliament during the Life of the late King.
Knee was bow'd, did not oppose a Declaration so little for their Honour: But in the Beginning of Lewis XVth's Reign they commenced a Suit upon it against the legitimated Princes.
The Princess of Conti, the first Dowager Lady, is the legitimated Daughter of King Lewis XIV.
The three Princes that I have just mention'd, are the Sons of Madame the Duchess (of Bourbon) the legitimated Daughter of Lewis XIV.
That he is brewing something against the legitimated princes, and that he will profit by this to take away some more of their privileges.
The honors of the legitimated princes were restricted to the simple rank of their peerages.
In course of time she gave birth to a little girl, named Francesca, who frequented the convent, and whom Osio legitimated as his child.
Upon the death of the husband the Monsignore obtained dispensation from his orders, married Beatrice, and legitimated his son, the inheritor of so much wealth.
The real direction of affairs fell into the hands of his uncle, Henry Beaufort, the Bishop of Winchester, a legitimated son of John of Gaunt by his mistress Catharine Swynford.
In later days Catharine became John's wife, and his uncle's influence over Richard at the close of that king's reign was shown in a royal ordinance which legitimated those of his children by her who had been born before marriage.
Of all the late King's legitimated Children his Majesty seem'd to be fondest of this.
The first marry'd a legitimated Daughter of the Margrave.
This Prince married Anne Countess of Orselska, the legitimated Daughter of the late King.
King's legitimated Natural Issue, who are rank'd immediately after the Princes of the Blood.
The principle of Christianising the Pagan rites was legitimated by Gregory the Great.
Agnes Hepburn, another daughter of the late Patrick Bishop of Murray, was also legitimated on 8th Feb.
Antoine de Bourbon, Comte de Moret, the son of Henri IV and Madame de Moret, was legitimated in 1608, and was killed during the subsequent reign at the battle of Castelnaudary, while serving under the Duc de Montmorency.
This was the reception of Alexandre-Monsieur, the second legitimatedson of the monarch and Gabrielle d'Estrées, into the Order of the Knights of Malta.
There, if a man live with, and have children by a woman, though he do not marry her till he be upon his death-bed, all the children are thereby legitimated and become entitled to the honors and estates of their father.
The case is the same in Holland and some parts of Germany; with this difference only, that all the children to be legitimated must appear with the father and mother in church at the ceremony of their marriage.
Filipa Gomez--legitimated on the same day as her brother, Goncalo Gomez (same reference as No.
The next in Rank to that Princess was the first Dowager-Princess of Conti, the legitimated Daughter of Lewis XIV.
He declared solemnly, That the Legitimated Princes should enjoy the Rank of Princes of the Blood during their Lives, but that they could not succeed to the Crown.
The former were uneasy to see the latter in possession of Rank equal to theirs, and pretending to an equal Share with them in the Right of Succession to the Crown; and therefore demanded that the Legitimated Princes, viz.
Rank which Blood alone can give; that moreover, the Claim of the Legitimated Princes would deprive the Nation of its Right of calling such Family to the Crown as they thought fit, in case the Royal Family should happen to be extinct.
This Princess was Mother to the Duke of Bourbon (that died in 1710) whose Wife Louisa-Francese of Bourbon, the legitimated Daughter of Lewis XIV.
At this very time the Princes of the Blood presented a Petition to his Majesty against the Legitimated Princes.
The Princes of the Blood gave an ample and solid Reply to the Memorial of the Legitimated Princes.
Of the four daughters she bore him, three only were legitimated by his successor.
These children were openly legitimated by Louis, and were married by him to members of the royal family.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legitimated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
