non licet
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of non licet
First recorded in 1615–25, non licet is from Latin nōn licet “it is not allowed”
Example Sentences
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None can enjoy at one and the same time the pure pleasure of ideality and the debasing joys of sensuality; for the proverb "quod licet bovi non licet Jovi" avails also when inverted.
From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Adolf Hausrath
But nobis non licet esse tam disertis—at least, if we study to refine our numbers.
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden
The death-warrant could only come from him; nobis non licet interficere, said the Jews.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson
In fact, the lady detects Catullus making an unfounded boast of his Bithynian acquisitions, and he accordingly exclaims, “Sed tu insulsa male, et molesta vivis, Per quam non licet esse negligentem.”
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
Her husband answered quietly: "My child, 'quod licet Jovi, non licet bovi.'"
From Jena or Sedan? by Franz Beyerlein
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