Lawful.--Todd, Webster. This word was criticised in the Monthly Anthology, (1804, p. 54,) in a review of the "Miscellaneous Works of David Humphreys, Esq." The reviewers say, "There is no such word as licit, and we cannot allow the author, respectable as he is, to coin language."--Pickering. It is now found in all the later English dictionaries.