permitted

[ per-mit-id ]

adjective

allowed or tolerated: One lettuce contained a gene-mutating compound at over sixty times the permitted level.
given permission to do something; authorized: Some of the user-uploaded data should only be accessible to a permitted group of users.

verb

Origin of permitted

The only physician she was permitted to see was the jail doctor.
States Slap Pregnant Women With Harsher Jail Sentences | Emily Shire | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
But since the government has now permitted the River God to leave the U.K., that excuse can no longer wash.
Britain Has Lost Its Marbles: Elgin Loan Will Appease Putin | Geoffrey Robertson | December 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Assuming that members of Congress who live in D.C. are adults, they, too, will be permitted to get stoned at their leisure.
Can Congress Get Stoned Now That D.C. Has Legalized Marijuana? | Abby Haglage | November 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
She said she wrote the letter because the president is not permitted direct contact with soldiers.
Corruption Eats Away at Ukraine Military | Charles McPhedran | October 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Such an abattoir would never be permitted to continue in the United States, or indeed the developed (and white) world.
Ebola and America’s Childish Narcissism | Michael Tomasky | October 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

In most club card-rooms smoking is not permitted, but at the Pandemonium it is the fashion to smoke everywhere.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James Wills
But there is a pinnacle of human success and of human opinion, on which human foot was never yet permitted to rest.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane Porter
This unreasoning, feminine obstinacy so wrought upon him that he permitted himself a smile and a lapse into irony and banter.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatini
They had been permitted to sit up till after the ice-cream, which naturally marked the limit of human indulgence.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate Chopin
Once he permitted himself a digression, that he might point a moral for the benefit of his servant.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatini

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