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illicit, a.|ɪˈlɪsɪt, ɪll-|
Also 7 -ite.
[a. F. illicite (14th c.), ad. L. illicitus, f. il- (il-2) + licitus pa. pple. of licēre to be allowed.]
Not authorized or allowed; improper, irregular; esp. not sanctioned by law, rule, or custom; unlawful, forbidden.
a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. viii. 390 To purge and reform our hearts and all the illicit actions and motions thereof. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 274 Corrupting Christianity with the illicite Doctrines and practices of Idolatry. 1748Anson's Voy. i. ix. 85 The illicit commerce carried on to the river of Plate. 1806T. S. Surr Winter in Lond. (ed. 3) II. 248, I am the offspring of illicit love. 1815European Mag. LXXIII. 154 Between the 6th and 7th bars..are formed two illicit fifths. 1845McCulloch Taxation ii. x. (1852) 365 Illicit distillation is but little prevalent. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt i. (1868) 25 Interested in stories of illicit passion.
b. Of an agent: That does something illegal.
1884S. Dowell Taxes in Eng. IV. i. i. 5 [This] enabled the illicit manufacturer to compete successfully with the fair trader.
c. Logic. illicit process: that form of syllogistic fallacy in which a term not distributed in the premisses is distributed in the conclusion.
1827Whately Logic 88 To infer a universal conclusion [from a particular minor premise] would be an illicit process of the minor. 1866Fowler Induct. Logic (1869) 91 This fallacy is called illicit process of the major or minor, according as the term illegitimately distributed in the conclusion is the major or minor term.
Hence iˈllicitly adv., in an illicit manner. iˈllicitness, unlawfulness (Todd, 1818).
1812J. Henry Camp. agst. Quebec 221 Captain Smith skulked thither illicitly. 1856Dove Logic Chr. Faith iv. ii. §3. 200 They introduce illicitly and unconsciously the idea of mind. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 225 A more profitable trade was illicitly carried on with the Spanish settlements. |