Licit

Definitions: Licit

Licit

Adjective

1. Sanctioned by custom or morality especially sexual morality; "a wife's licit love".

2. Authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law; "a legitimate government".

Date "licit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
Licit	English	Labour-Industry Coalition for International Trade	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Licit

Synonyms: lawful (adj), legitimate (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: illicit (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dueness	Allowable; (permitted); lawful, licit, legitimate, legal; legalized; (law).
Permission	Adjective: permitting; Verb: permissive, indulgent; permitted; Verb: patent, chartered, permissible, allowable, lawful, legitimate, legal; legalized; (law); licit; unforbid, unforbidden; unconditional.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Licit

Specialty definitions using "licit": unclassed felling, unregulated felling. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Licit" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Hungarian (bid, bidding, call), Romanian (licit).

Domain	Title
Books	Licit and Illicit Drug Use in the Netherlands: 1997 (reference) Prenatal abuse of licit and illicit drugs (reference) Psychotropic Substances in Europe Trends in Licit Use (reference) Society under siege: Licit responses to illicit arms (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Peru	As of 1998, the total gross agricultural production value of the alternative crops in targeted areas outweighed the total gross production value of coca leaf by 39%. As a result, over 2,600 new jobs were created and more than 20,000 farmers were assisted in production, quality improvement, processing and marketing for licit crops such as coffee, cacao, livestock, and agroforestry, on nearly 25,000 hectares. (references)
Trade	Switzerland	Strictly speaking, there are no prohibited imports in licit, commercial trade with Switzerland. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Licit" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Licit" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	66.67%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	33.33%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "licit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i rregullt (above board, correct, done, even, formal, frequent, habitual, honest, just, measured, neat, normal, on the level, orderly, regular, right, steady, systematic, systematical, tidy, trig, trim). (various references)

Arabic		‏مشروع (design, enacted, enterprise, idea, legislated, plan, project, schema, scheme, undertaking, venture), ‏مباح (permissible), ‏قانوني (fair, jural, jurist, juristic, lawful, legal, legist, legitimate, rightful, statutory, valid). (various references)

Bulgarian		законен (allowable, jural, lawful, legal, legitimate, sound, vested, warrantable), позволен (allowed, innocent, legal, permissible, permited). (various references)

Czech		legální (lawful, legal, legitimate). (various references)

French		licite. (various references)

German		gesetzmäßig (constitutional, lawful, lawfully, legal, legitimate). (various references)

Greek		νόμιμοσ (lawful, legal, legitimate, rightful), θεμιτόσ (legitimate). (various references)

Hebrew		מותר (abundance, allowed, lawful, loose, pemitted, permissible, remainder, remnant, superfluity, superiority, surplus), חוקי (lawful, legal, legit, legitimate). (various references)

Hungarian		törvényes (juridical, lawful, legal, legitimate, rightful, statutory, to take legal measures), szabad (aerial, disengaged, exposed, fetterless, footloose, franchised, frank, free, free for all, freehold, independent, leisure, permissible, to give sy line enough, unbound, unchecked, unimpeded, vacant), megengedett (admissible, legal). (various references)

Italian		lecito (allowed, kosher, lawful, legal, permissible, right). (various references)

Pig Latin		icitlay

Portuguese		legal (bang up, cool, enactment, honest, juridical capacity, juristical, jurists, lawful, legal, legitimate, nice, rightful, statutory), líquen (lichen), lícito (lawful, legal, permissible). (various references)

Romanian		licit, legal (jural, juridical, juristic, juristical, just, justifiable, lawful, lawfully, legal, legally, legitimate, rightful, sound). (various references)

Russian		законный (judicial, juridical, justifiable, lawful, legal, legitimate, recognized, rightful, true, vested, warrantable), позволительный (justifiable, permissible, remissible). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dozvoljen (allowed, permissible), dopušten (allowable). (various references)

Spanish		lícito (lawful, legal). (various references)

Swedish		laglig (lawful, legal, legitimate, sound). (various references)

Thai		ถูกกฎหมาย. (various references)

Turkish		yasal (clean, competent, de jure, juridical, juristic, juristical, lawful, legal, legit, legitimate, right, rightful, solemn, sound, statutory, technical, valid), meşru (lawful, legit, legitimate, statutory), mübâh (allowable). (various references)

Ukranian		законний (allowable, juristic, juristical, justiciary, lawful, legal, legitimate, nomothetic, recognized, rightful, true, vested), дозволений (allowable, authorized, permissible, permitted, warrantable). (various references)

Vietnamese		hợp pháp (lawful, legal), đúng luật. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	legitiums, licitus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "licit": licitly. (additional references)
	Words ending with "licit": complicit, elicit, explicit, illicit, implicit, inexplicit, overexplicit, solicit. (additional references)
	Words containing "licit": apostolicities, apostolicity, catholicities, catholicity, complicities, complicitous, complicity, cyclicities, cyclicity, duplicities, duplicitous, duplicitously, duplicity, electrophilicities, electrophilicity, elicitation, elicitations, elicited, eliciting, elicitor, elicitors, elicits, explicitly, explicitness, explicitnesses, explicits, felicitate, felicitated, felicitates, felicitating, felicitation, felicitations, felicitator, felicitators, felicities, felicitous, felicitously, felicitousness, felicitousnesses, felicity, helicities, helicity, hydrophilicities, hydrophilicity, illicitly, illicitness, illicitnesses, implicitly, implicitness, implicitnesses, infelicities. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Licit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alicit, dicit, flacit, Icbt, icsitm, ilecit, Ilshat, Labit, lacit, Laici, lcat, Lci, Lciii, lct, lebit, Lecat, Lecoat, ledit, Leicht, Leixit, Lescaut, lexit, lican, Liccy, licet, licht, licia, licie, licik, licin, licor, lict, Licua, lific, ligit, liket, Liki, lilit, linit, liocit, Lipcote, lipit, lisant, Liscia, lisi, Lissett, listi, litic, livit, loccit, locit, Lucht, lucio, Luisito, Lurcott, lusit, lycan, lydite, Lykeio, Lypiatt, slicit, vicit. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "licit" (pronounced 'Lic"it'): Accredit, Adhibit, Adit, Albeit, Bewit, Cohabit, Cohibit, Davit, Decrepit, Delimit, Dishabit, Disherit, Disinherit, Dispirit, Disspirit, Edit, Effrontit, Evomit, Howbeit, illicit, Immerit, implicit, inexplicit, inhibit, inspirit, Interposit, Intervisit, Introit, Juxtaposit, Kinit, Overmerit, Petit, Pinxit, Pipit, Placit, Posit, Postposit, Prelimit, Premerit, Prohibit, Promerit, redeposit, Reexhibit, Reinhabit, Reinspirit, reposit, Retraxit, revisit, Seposit, solicit. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-i-i-l-t"
	-1 letter: clit.
	-2 letters: lit, tic, til.
	-3 letters: it, li, ti.
	Words containing the letters "c-i-i-l-t"
	+1 letter: clitic, elicit, italic, litchi, lithic.
	+2 letters: albitic, aplitic, chitlin, ciliate, clitics, colitic, colitis, elicits, fictile, illicit, illitic, inflict, italics, itchily, licitly, litchis, litotic, oolitic, pelitic, politic, solicit, thiolic.
	+3 letters: biolytic, biotical, bitchily, calcitic, chiliast, chitling, chitlins, ciliated, ciliates, civility, climatic, clitoric, clitoris, coistril, colistin, colpitis, comitial, critical, dialytic, docility, ecliptic, elicited, elicitor, elliptic, enclitic, eolithic, explicit, facility, felicity, felsitic, helicity, holistic, hoplitic, iatrical, idiolect, implicit, inflicts, lecithin, leucitic, lichting, lickspit, lignitic, limnetic, lipstick, lithemic, liturgic, logistic, lucidity, lyricist, marlitic, nitrolic, perlitic, pitchily, platinic, politick, politico, politics, poplitic, psilotic, pyelitic, scilicet, sciolist, silicate, solicits, stickily, stylitic, sulfitic, tickling, ticklish, trickily, trochili, uralitic, utriculi, verticil, viatical, villatic, zeolitic.
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