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licet

American  
[lee-ket, lahy-set] / ˈli kɛt, ˈlaɪ sɛt /
Latin.
  1. it is allowed.


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Hoc potest fortasse capiatur sicut confirmationem quod aliquid horrendum quidem agatur in sanctarum aedium, licet percontationibus ostendere habere perfecte bonum material explicatione.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

Arma nondum licet deponere, meae sorores, nee proeliurn tarn Ion-gum tamque difficile nobis est relin-quendum.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hinc tuo sumas licet arma nato, Seu novas his ex oculis sagittas; Seu faces flamma velit acriori Flave comatas.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

At bottom, S. P. and these lines: Ordo licet reliquos sit præstantissimus inter Conjugium, heu nimium sæpe doloris habet.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis

Apud nos quod non licet feminis æque non licet viris; et eadem servitus pari conditione censetur.”—Ep. lxxvii.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

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