legitimatise

To annoy poor Sponeck, Leopold in 1715 had entered into a contract with Wirtemberg, whereby he declared his distant cousin, Eberhard Ludwig, heir to Mömpelgard; but he soon repented of this admission, and besought the Emperor to legitimatise his children: those morganatically born by the Countess of Sponeck, and the rest of the brood from the Espérance sisters.

A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg 1905

Regent, Duc d'Orléans, to legitimatise his progeny.

A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg 1905

I, the husband, shall be separated from you by whole oceans perhaps, and shall not be here to legitimatise the result of a _faux pas_.

Dr. Dumany's Wife M��r J��kai 1864

While it added to the queen's distress, it removed, nevertheless, all objections which might have been raised by the anti-papal party against the act to legitimatise her.

The Reign of Mary Tudor James Anthony Froude 1856

Let the one idea be lost sight of, and the other will altogether fail to legitimatise itself, or keep its ground.

Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator. 1823-1886 1855

Sinn Fein continues to legitimatise violence, still happy to endorse physical force Nationalism with criminal intent.

A Tangled Web 2010

You might have married my son -- my dear and noble George; but that he did not choose to interfere with your shameful passion for the beggarly upstart whom you caused to assassinate him; and the only counsel I have to give your Ladyship is this, to legitimatise the ties which you have contracted with this shameless adventurer; to make that connection legal which, real as it is now, is against both decency and religion; and to spare your family and your son the shame of your present line of life. '

Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

The Church is asking us to trust them, but they have lost that trust. "decriminalise - make legal;" Marijuana should be legalized "decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize child abuse.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED Mike Rivero 2010