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Definition of Illicit
1. Adjective. Contrary to accepted morality (especially sexual morality) or convention. "An illicit association with his secretary"
2. Adjective. Contrary to or forbidden by law. "Unlawful measures"
Similar to: Illegal
Derivative terms: Illicitness, Outlaw, Unlawfulness
Definition of Illicit
1. a. Not permitted or allowed; prohibited; unlawful; as, illicit trade; illicit intercourse; illicit pleasure.
Definition of Illicit
1. Adjective. (legal) Lacking licitness, but not invalid. ¹
2. Adjective. Breaking social norms. ¹
3. Adjective. Unlawful. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Illicit
1. not permitted [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Illicit
Literary usage of Illicit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Drug Use Among U.S. Workers: Prevalence and Trends by Occupation and by John P. Hoffman (1996)
"3.1 Estimates for Detailed Categories Tables 3.1 and 3.2 provide the occupation
categories with the highest and lowest rates of current illicit drug use ..."
2. The Relationship Between Family Structure & Adolescent Substance Use by Robert A. Johnson, John P. Hoffman, Dean R. Gerstein (1996)
"alcohol (Table 3.4) and cigarettes (Table 3.6), black adolescents (4.5%) are
significantly less likely to use other illicit drugs than either white (8.0%) ..."
3. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1873)
"But it is well understood and settled, that the underwriter is not liable for
any loss arising from foreign illicit trade, unless he underwrote with full ..."
4. Cocaine Use in America: Epidemmiologic and Clinical Perspectives edited by Nicholas J. Kozel, Edgar H. Adams (1996)
"In order to assess the effect of cocaine independently of the use of other illicit
drugs, cocaine users were divided into those who had not used any other ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"illicit Cohabitation.—illicit cohabitation of a man and woman is a misdemeanor
... illicit cohabitation includes fornication or adultery, according to the ..."
6. A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States by Francis Wharton (1874)
"Statutes exist in many states making specifically indictable illicit cohabitation.
In some aspects (eg when the offence is a common scandal), ..."
7. The Development of the British West Indies, 1700-1763 by Frank Wesley Pitman (1917)
"CHAPTER XIII illicit COMMERCE, 1748-1763 In the period of truce between the close
of the War of the Austrian Succession and the opening of the ..."
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