licit
- 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 .