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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.

Illicit. [R.] Cotgrave.

Guilty of, or given to, adultery; pertaining to adultery; illicit. Dryden.

Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair. In amours with, in love with. [Obs.]

l" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

Illicit intercourse; fornication. Shak.

. The stoics affirmed a fatal, unchangeable concatenation of causes, reaching even to the illicit acts of man's will. South. A concatenation of explosions. W. Irving.

sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste. My past life Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true, As I am now unhappy. Shak.

Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.

Ill fame, ill or bad repute; as, a house of ill fame, a house where lewd persons meet for illicit intercourse. -- Ill humor, a disagreeable mood; bad temper. -- Ill nature, bad disposition or temperament; sullenness; esp., a disposition to cause unhappiness to others. -- Ill temper, anger; moroseness; crossness. --…

to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love. Bp. Burnet.

To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.

lewdness; one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit commerce with women.

A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman.

A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night. [Cant, U.S.]

Illicit distilling. [Slang or Colloq., U. S.]

ent, sometimes used in medicine. -- Mountain dew, Scotch whisky, so called because often illicitly distilled among the mountains. [Humorous] -- Mountain ebony (Bot.), a small leguminous tree (Bauhinia variegata) of the East and West Indies; -- so called because of its dark wood. The bark is used medicinally and in tan…

Whisky; especially, whisky illicitly distilled by the Irish peasantry. [Written also potheen, and potteen.]

To obtain for illicit intercourse or prostitution.

Pru"ri*ent*ly, adv. The eye of the vain and prurient is darting from object to object of illicit attraction. I. Taylor.