Definition of "licitly" [licitly]

• In a licit manner, legally, in a manner compatible with law. (adverb)

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• "It is also for this reason that everything (licitly) done within the liturgy, and in continuity with liturgical tradition, can serve as a light to brighten and make clearer the doctrines of the Church and the sacred mysteries being encountered."
• "Hence, according to Bugini himself, hymns may not licitly replace propers in the new Mass."
• "The Gradual and Alleluia of old are licitly replaced by this new idea called the Responsorial Psalm and a dramatically shrunken Alleuia while the "Gospel Acclamation" has displaced the glorious Tracts of old."