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The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness. Jer. Taylor.

To rouse; to excite. [Obs.] Johnson.

A stirring up; a rousing. [Obs.] Hallywell.

See Exsuscitate [Obs.] T. Adams.

To have a fever. [Obs.] Bailey.

Made very happy. [Archaic] I am alone felicitate In your dear highness' love. Shak.

The act of felicitating; a wishing of joy or happiness; congratulation.

Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful; skilful; successful; happily applied or expressed; appropriate. Felicitous words and images. M. Arnold. -- Fe*lic"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Fe*lic"i*tous*ness, n.

The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good. Our own felicity we make or find. Johnson. Finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy and felicity. Book of Common Prayer.

The state of being feracious or fruitful. [Obs.] Beattie.

Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay.

Limestone containing a large percentage of iron carbonate, and hence turning brown on exposure.

A gelatin dynamite in which the dope is composed largely of sodium nitrate.

Cited or quoted before or above. Arbuthnot.

Named or recited before. "The forerecited practices." Shak.

The quality of being fugacious; fugaclousness; volatility; as, fugacity of spirits. Boyle.

Addictedness to theft; thievishness. [Obs.]

A composition made from blood, mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons, door knobs, etc.

The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances.

Not permitted or allowed; prohibited; unlawful; as, illicit trade; illicit intercourse; illicit pleasure. One illicit . . . transaction always leads to another. Burke. -- Il*lic"it*ly, adv. -- Il*lic"it*ness, n.