Accordingly, permission was granted to Pericles to legitimize, and to inscribe in his own gens and phratry, his natural son by Aspasia, who bore his own name.

However stupid, bad or wicked a man may have been, if he is only rude into the bargain, he condones and legitimizes all his faults.

At last I arranged with Father Mashboef to give the sanction of the Church to the marriages and legitimize the little Carloses and Carlottas with holy water, and it cost the company about $700 to rectify the matrimonial situation in Santa Cruz.

At the same time the old shamanism was legitimized under a Buddhist reinterpretation.

Victory would legitimize and confirm the authority of one, and make it supreme over the whole civilized world.

She was a natural daughter soon legitimized like almost all his progeny,a product of his free harem, in which were mingled Saracen beauties and Italian marchionesses.

You are legitimized by love, your sister is legitimate by law.

That is true, no matter how late it is; if the man marries her even on his death-bed, all his children are legitimized.