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Licit

adjective
1.
Sanctioned by custom or morality especially sexual morality.
2.
Authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law.  Synonyms: lawful, legitimate.



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... use of any licit or illicit chemical substance that results in physical, mental, emotional, or behavioral impairment in ...
— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... description. The system of patents, as it exists in England, being either unknown, or not adopted in the Continental States, there is no inducement for industrial enterprise; and projectors are commonly obliged to offer their discoveries to some Government, and to so licit their encouragement. I need hardly add that scarcely ever is an invention brought to maturity under such circumstances. The well-known fact, that almost every invention seeks, as it were, refuge in England, and is there brought to perfection, though the ...
— Men of Invention and Industry • Samuel Smiles


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