legitimatise

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legitimatise (third-person singular simple present legitimatises, present participle legitimatising, simple past and past participle legitimatised)

  1. Alternative form of legitimatize
    • 1828, Peter Miller Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales, page 52:
      A number of the phrases current in St. Giles's Greek bid fair to become legitimatised in the dictionary of this colony: plant, swag, pulling up, and other epithets of the Tom and Jerry school, are established — []