Lickt vs Licit - What's the difference?
lickt | licit |
(obsolete) (lick)
The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue.
* Gray
A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
(colloquial) A stroke or blow.
(colloquial) A bit.
(music) A short motif.
speed. In this sense it is always qualified by good', or ' fair or a similar adjective.
To stroke with the tongue.
(colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
(colloquial) To overcome.
(vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
(colloquial) To do anything partially.
To lap
* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI
To lap; to take in with the tongue.
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 a verb lickt
is (obsolete) (lick).As an adjective licit is
not forbidden by formal or informal rules.lickt
English
Verb
(head)lick
English
(licking)Noun
(en noun)- The cat gave its fur a lick .
- Give me a lick of ice cream.
- a lick''' of paint; to put on colours with a '''lick of the brush
- a lick of court white wash
- The birds gathered at the clay lick .
- We used to play in the lick .
- Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.
- You don't have a lick of sense.
- I didn't do a lick of work today.
- There are some really good blues licks in this solo.
- The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.
Synonyms
* (bit) see also .Verb
(en verb)- The cat licked its fur.
- My dad can lick your dad.
- I think I can lick this.
- Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
- A cat licks milk.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* ass-licker * cow lick * good lick * lick one's chops * lick one's wounds * lick out * lickspittle * lick up * licked * lickety split * outlicklicit
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, [...]
Obama and the illusion of leadership", The Guardian ,
- [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.