Licensed vs Licit - What's the difference?
licensed | licit | Related terms |
(of a person or enterprise) having been issued with a licence (by the required authority)
# (of a shop or restaurant) allowed to sell alcohol
(of an activity) authorized by licence
# (of a product) based on an existing piece of intellectual property and sold under licence.
(license)
Not forbidden by formal or informal rules.
* Undated , (anonymous translator),
* 1896 ,
* 2008 , July 27, Jeremy Seabrook, "
(legal) Explicitly established or constituted by law.
* 1913 , Joseph Selinger, "
As adjectives the difference between licensed and licit
is that licensed is having been issued with a licence (by the required authority while licit is not forbidden by formal or informal rules.As a verb licensed
is past tense of license.licensed
English
Adjective
(-)- Only licensed exterminators can purchase rat poison in this state.
- The opening hours of licensed premises are restricted to prevent all-night drinking.
- Even licensed fishing has a major effect on the fish population in the river.
- Although they sell well, licensed video games are seldom critically acclaimed.
Derived terms
* licensed victuallerAntonyms
* unlicensedVerb
(head)Anagrams
* *See also
* licencedlicit
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Let it not be in any way licit to anyone among men to infringe this page of our confirmation, or to contravene it with rash daring.
- You seem to have been very much offended because your father talks a little sculduddery after dinner, which it is perfectly licit for him to do, [...]
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- [T]he vanity of efforts to deter humanity from following this licit and highly profitable mobility, clearly indicate the limits of their [leaders'] power.
- The contract validly made and consummated is dissolved by death alone. However, the Church must determine what is required for a valid and licit marriage contract.