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English Dictionary: lawfully by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lawfully
adv
  1. in a manner acceptable to common custom; "you cannot do this legitimately!"
    Synonym(s): legitimately, lawfully, licitly
    Antonym(s): illegally, illegitimately, illicitly, lawlessly
  2. by law; conforming to the law; "we are lawfully wedded now"
    Synonym(s): legally, lawfully, de jure
    Antonym(s): unlawfully
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      Note: In some of the States, and for some purposes, a woman
               attains lawful age at eighteen. --Abbott.
  
      Syn: Legal; constitutional; allowable; regular; rightful.
  
      Usage: {Lawful}, {Legal}. Lawful means conformable to the
                  principle, spirit, or essence of the law, and is
                  applicable to moral as well as juridical law. Legal
                  means conformable to the letter or rules of the law as
                  it is administered in the courts; conformable to
                  juridical law. Legal is often used as antithetical to
                  equitable, but lawful is seldom used in that sense. --
                  {Law"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Law"ful*ness}, n.
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