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licit

[ lis-it ]

adjective

  1. legal; lawful; legitimate; permissible.


licit

/ ˈlɪsɪt /

adjective

  1. See lawful
    a less common word for lawful


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Derived Forms

  • ˈlicitly, adverb
  • ˈlicitness, noun

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Other Words From

  • licit·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of licit1

1475–85; < Latin licitus permitted (past participle of licēre ); replacing earlier licite < Middle French; -ite 2

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Word History and Origins

Origin of licit1

C15: from Latin licitus permitted, from licēre to be permitted

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Example Sentences

Basically, you put the Band of Brothers first: your natural desires a distant second (gay or straight, licit or illicit).

To the vice of luxury was she so abandoned that lust she made licit in her law, to take away the blame she had incurred.

His only act was to return a negative answer to the question whether it was licit to employ diabolic arts to save the city.

It remained for Aristotle to invent a genuine method of sorting out a licit from an illicit type of argument.

There are three fundamental conditions: 1, the consent; 2, a licit cause; 3, the capacity of the contracting parties.

To make such a double-effect action licit there are four conditions which are explained in the chapter on Mutilation.

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