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Lawful. "Licit establishments." Carlyle. -- Lic"it*ly, adv. -- Lic"it*ness, n.

The act of offering for sale to the highest bidder. [R.]

The act or state of being an accomplice. [R.]

The state or quality of being English.

The state or quality of being apostolical.

The state of being twice folded; reduplication. [R.] Bailey.

The state or quality of being catholic; universality.

The state of being an accomplice; participation in guilt.

Doubleness; a twofold state. [Archaic] Do not affect duplicities nor triplicities, nor any certain number of parts in your division of things. I. Watts.

Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident. [Obs.] "An elicit act of equity." Jer. Taylor.

To elicit. [Obs.]

The act of eliciting. [Obs.] Abp. Bramhall.

Evangelicism.

en to the understanding; clear; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, an explicit declaration. The language of the charter was too explicit to admit of a doubt. Bancroft.

In an explicit manner; clearly; plainly; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication; as, he explicitly avows his intention.

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

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.