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Definition of Licitly
1. Adverb. In a manner acceptable to common custom. "You cannot do this legitimately!"
Partainyms: Lawful, Legitimate, Licit
Antonyms: Lawlessly, Illegitimately, Illicitly
Definition of Licitly
1. Adverb. In a licit manner, legally, in a manner compatible with law. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Licitly
1. licit [adv] - See also: licit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Licitly
Literary usage of Licitly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sacred Penitentiaria and Its Relations to Faculities of Ordinaries and by William John Kubelbeck (1918)
"A dispensation may be licitly applied for and licitly granted when there is doubt
about the ... A probably just cause suffices not only for licitly asking a ..."
2. Moral problems in hospital practice by Patrick A. Finney (1922)
"There is a risk that she will die from the first operation done to deliver the
viable child, but she may licitly take this risk, as she might licitly run ..."
3. Parishes, Tithes, and Society in Earlier Medieval Poland, C. 1100-c. 1250 by Piotr Górecki (1993)
"... buried (and which had been licitly appropriated by the canons), and to remove
a substantial proportion of the material part of the decedents' estates. ..."
4. Marriage Considered from Legal and Ecclesiastical Viewpoints: In Connection by Lewis Stockton (1912)
"The delegated priest, in order to assist validly and licitly, is bound to observe
the limits of his mandate and the rules laid down above in IV and V, ..."
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