Definition of lawful

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Lawful (a.) Constituted or authorized by law; rightful; as, the lawful owner of lands..

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Forbiddenly :: Forbiddenly (adv.) In a forbidden or unlawful manner.
Riotous :: Riotous (a.) Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly or its acts; seditious.
Execution :: Execution (n.) A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer..
Leveful :: Leveful (n.) Allowable; permissible; lawful.
Contumacy :: Contumacy (n.) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned..
Riot :: Riot (n.) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
Parasynaxis :: Parasynaxis (n.) An unlawful meeting.
Rescue :: Rescue (v.) The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained..
Rebellious :: Rebellious (a.) Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by force.
Chevisance :: Chevisance (n.) An unlawful agreement or contract.
Whore :: Whore (n.) A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot..
Officer :: Officer (n.) One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer..
Lawful :: Lawful (a.) Conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; competent.
Duress :: Duress (n.) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense..
Novatian :: Novatian (n.) One of the sect of Novatius, or Novatianus, who held that the lapsed might not be received again into communion with the church, and that second marriages are unlawful..
Whorish :: Whorish (a.) Resembling a whore in character or conduct; addicted to unlawful pleasures; incontinent; lewd; unchaste.
Disloyal :: Disloyal (a.) Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife..
Loot :: Loot (v. t. & i.) To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.
Drib :: Drib (v. t.) To appropriate unlawfully; to filch; to defalcate.
Insubordination :: Insubordination (n.) The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.
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