Their country has floated a proposal to make the licit trade in arms more open, accountable and responsible on a world-wide level. From LearnThat.org.
A wife's licit love. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Hearing boys shouting and F'licit's steam-whistle shrieks, he had dropped the rail he was holding and rushed down the hill, thinking that she was being tormented. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
Dervishes will consider it licit to shed thy blood. From Wordnik.com. [The Gulistan of Sa'di] Reference
It was never licit from within the rules of the DNC. From Wordnik.com. [The Latest Popular Vote Counts] Reference
In time of war, all things required for its carrying on are licit. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
They don't earn that much more money from opium than they do from licit crops. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2009] Reference
This condition renders them licit and valid if it be fulfilled, as stated above. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
And even then, the use of lethal means must be highly circumscribed to be licit. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Culbreath on Modern Warfare] Reference
He is smiling at somebody behind me, a warm, comp licit smile of confidence, so look out. From Wordnik.com. [The mission song]
Johansen claimed DeCSS was more like a screwdriver -- something with both licit and illicit uses. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
Only by putting a substance into licit social use can we determine how to use it in a civilized way. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Kaplan: Drugs: Losing the Longest War] Reference
Probably it was for the best, because his growing feeling for her was not licit, and needed to be abated. From Wordnik.com. [Zombie Lover]
Some interesting questions are raised: Do prostitutes care whether the use of condoms is canonically licit?. From Wordnik.com. [Michele Somerville: Assumption of Responsibility: Condoms and the Pope] Reference
Who has renounced appetites for the sake of approbation by men has fallen from licit into illicit appetites. From Wordnik.com. [The Gulistan of Sa'di] Reference
It remained for Aristotle to invent a genuine method of sorting out a licit from an illicit type of argument. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
Ibi quisque vir licit� potest coniungi cuique mulieri; quantumcunque propinquet, exceptis progenitoribus, patre matre. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
Sunstein and his co-author argue that this calculus makes the death penalty not just morally licit but morally required. From Wordnik.com. [Primary Sources] Reference
There is a magic that is the work of the Devil and which aims at man's downfall through artifices of which it is not licit to speak. From Wordnik.com. [The Name of the Rose]
Having already donated part of the hard drive to the altar of chemicals, licit and not, there will be nothing stronger than Mountain Dew. From Wordnik.com. [Bonnaroo: Visions of My Morning Jacket (and Disco Naps on the Grass) - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
This is what we do: Eleven Afghan men and women and I scour this harried land for its (licit) bounties and turn them into beauty products. From Wordnik.com. [Scents & Sensibility] Reference
Formerly there were fourteen establishments, which licit trade in palm oil and ground-nuts, instead of men, women, and children, have reduced to ten. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
That led ACDI/VOCA, an economic development organization, to set up a number of alternative income projects that would increase licit household income. From Wordnik.com. [Craig and Marc Kielburger: To Bee or Not To Bee] Reference
The love nest on H Street was a center of power in the Harding administration, where the movers and shakers met to do the government's business, both licit and il. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Dwyer: Another Historical Analogy for Desperate Republicans] Reference
Quote, "The extensive licit cross border traffic between the two countries provides ample opportunities for drug smugglers to deliver their illicit products to the U.S. markets.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2007] Reference
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