Definition of Illicit

1. Adjective. Contrary to accepted morality (especially sexual morality) or convention. "An illicit association with his secretary"


2. Adjective. Contrary to or forbidden by law. "Unlawful measures"
Exact synonyms: Illegitimate, Outlaw, Outlawed, Unlawful
Similar to: Illegal
Derivative terms: Illicitness, Outlaw, Unlawfulness

Definition of Illicit

1. a. Not permitted or allowed; prohibited; unlawful; as, illicit trade; illicit intercourse; illicit pleasure.

Definition of Illicit

1. Adjective. (legal) Lacking licitness, but not invalid. ¹

2. Adjective. Breaking social norms. ¹

3. Adjective. Unlawful. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Illicit

1. not permitted [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Illicit

illiad
illiads
illiberal
illiberalism
illiberalisms
illiberalities
illiberality
illiberalize
illiberalized
illiberalizes
illiberalizing
illiberally
illiberalness
illiberalnesses
illicia
illicitly
illicitness
illicitous
illicium
illighten
illightened
illightening
illightens
illimitability
illimitable
illimitableness
illimitably
illimitation
illimited

Literary usage of Illicit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Drug Use Among U.S. Workers: Prevalence and Trends by Occupation and by John P. Hoffman (1996)
"3.1 Estimates for Detailed Categories Tables 3.1 and 3.2 provide the occupation categories with the highest and lowest rates of current illicit drug use ..."

2. The Relationship Between Family Structure & Adolescent Substance Use by Robert A. Johnson, John P. Hoffman, Dean R. Gerstein (1996)
"alcohol (Table 3.4) and cigarettes (Table 3.6), black adolescents (4.5%) are significantly less likely to use other illicit drugs than either white (8.0%) ..."

3. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1873)
"But it is well understood and settled, that the underwriter is not liable for any loss arising from foreign illicit trade, unless he underwrote with full ..."

4. Cocaine Use in America: Epidemmiologic and Clinical Perspectives edited by Nicholas J. Kozel, Edgar H. Adams (1996)
"In order to assess the effect of cocaine independently of the use of other illicit drugs, cocaine users were divided into those who had not used any other ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"illicit Cohabitation.—illicit cohabitation of a man and woman is a misdemeanor ... illicit cohabitation includes fornication or adultery, according to the ..."

6. A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States by Francis Wharton (1874)
"Statutes exist in many states making specifically indictable illicit cohabitation. In some aspects (eg when the offence is a common scandal), ..."

7. The Development of the British West Indies, 1700-1763 by Frank Wesley Pitman (1917)
"CHAPTER XIII illicit COMMERCE, 1748-1763 In the period of truce between the close of the War of the Austrian Succession and the opening of the ..."

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