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• a  sanctioned by custom or morality especially sexual morality
  a wife's licit love
• s  authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law

• The implication, that there may be a brief period during which abortion is licit, is not new in the church, though it has been a minor refrain in Catholic theology and explicitly .
• Thus, adds the encyclical, the church cannot "declare licit that which is not licit because of its intimate and immutable opposition to the real well-being of mankind.
• Cloistered in his Harvard office, he was busy turning out more Lost Positives: licit, iterate, fulgent, prentice, placable, delible, souciant, effable, vertently, fangled .

• lawful
• legitimate

• illicit

News & Articles

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• Analysis: Colombias fight against the coca trade
  The Colombian government believes people should just say no to growing coca: those that do not, risk aerial spraying of their illicit crop with powerful pesticides, or manual destruction by work teams hired by private firms and supported by the security forces.
  Aug. 28, 2013 - IRIN

Quotes

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• Pope John Paul II in LifeNews.com
  It quoted Pope John Paul II: "No circumstance, no purpose, no law whatsoever can ever make licit an act which intrinsically illicit."
• Misha Glenny in TheNewsTribune.com
  The most urgent need, Glenny says, is for greater regulation of financial markets, because "the deeper the involvement of shadow funds with the licit money markets, the harder it becomes to follow the cash that is the key to the successful policing...
• Aquilino Pimentel Jr in Philippine Headline News
  It's time to use all licit moves to check her abuses,Pimentel said.