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- adjective archaic
permissible ,permitted ;allowable ,allowed
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Examples
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That thynge is not lefull to be seen/[that] is not lefull to be desyred.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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NO vice was more greuous, and horrible emong the Scithians then thefte, for this was their sai - yng: _Quid saluum esse poterit si licet furari_, what can be safe, if thefte bee lefull or tolerated.
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_ By this lawe it was not lefull, any manne to be put
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Another book well known to bibliomaniacs ( "Dives and Pauper," ed.W. de Worde; 1496) says: "For to represente in playnge at Crystmasse herodes and the thre kynges and other processes of the gospelles both then and at Ester and other tymes also it is lefull and
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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"_Item_, That na man of warr, Frenche nor Scottis, be layed in daylie garnesoun within the town of Edinburght, bot to repair thairto to do thair lefull besynes, and thairefter to reteir thame to thare garnesounis." [
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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