licit

see definition of licit

adjlegal

Synonyms for licit

adj legal

Antonyms for licit

authorized

adjective. approved

effectual

adjective. influential; authoritative

justifiable

adjective. reasonable, well-founded

lawful

adjective. allowable, legitimate

Word Origin & History

late 15c., from Middle French licite or directly from Latin licitus "lawful," past participle of licere "be allowed, be lawful" (see licence). Related: Licitly; licitness.

Example Sentences for licit

To say that marriage is also a licit remedy of concupiscence is no excuse.

In time of war, all things required for its carrying on are licit.

If an unbeliever should see his way to gain by falsehood or licit fraud, what should deter him?

Father Sabetti denied that it is indirect, but he held that it is licit for another reason.

When one's antecedents have not been of a licit character, one is predisposed to make extraordinary excuses for others.

If that possible hastening is licit the whole action is licit; if it is not permissible it will vitiate the entire action.

Sam Wiles, Zibe Turner, and der crowd have bin busy for a long time makin' 'licit whisky.

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

For if it were licit to love, it were more licit to express it and this expression should be reciprocal.

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