a. Obs. Also licible, loisible. [a. F. loisible (? OF. *leisible), f. OF. loisir, leisir (see LEISURE sb.):—L. licēre to be lawful: cf. LICENCE.] Lawful, permissible.
a. 1420. Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 1565. Þi conceyt holdeþ it good and lisible [Halliwell reads licible] To doon. Ibid., 3119. When he a man y-murdred hath and slawe A man to sle by lawe, it is lisible.
1546. St. Papers Hen. VIII., XI. 309. Toching the stay of his fortifications at Portet, which ar alledged by us not loisible by the treaty.
