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Illicit < Lat., licere, to permit. Illegal < Lat., lex, a statutory law (as opposed to natural law, or what have you). As noted above, illicit is a broader term that often includes a moral or ethical connotation, whereas illegal does not. It might be illegal to open the coolant reservoir on your air conditioner, but nobody thinks it is immoral.
unlawful, illegal, illegitimate, illicit are comparable when they mean contrary to, prohibited by, or not in accordance with law or the law. Otherwise than this negation in character, the words in general carry the same differences in implications and connotations as the affirmative adjectives discriminated at LAWFUL.
elicit - to bring out, educe (principles, truths, etc.) from the data in which they are implied. Also, to extract, draw out (information) from a person by interrogation; sometimes with object clause introduced by that. solicit - to seek after; to try to find, obtain, or acquire. As implied by the second part of the first definition, in OP's ...
The meaning of "female master" came first. The second meaning of "illicit lover" seems to follow quite naturally to me. I don't have any documentary historical evidence to back this up, just my intuition, but it seems quite natural that people would think of an illicit lover as dominating (domina + ing) her boyfriend through her seductive powers.
"Boyfriend" indicates a romantic relationship that may or may not involve illicit sex, again without any implication of the marital status of either party. I can't help but add: I once heard a comedian comment that he stumbled across the word "nymphomaniac" in a dictionary, and it defined it as "a female who is completely obsessed with sex".
Regarding "laundering" of dirty money, it is the passing of money gained through illicit means through banks, services, and asset purchases to confuse attempts to trace a particular bit of cash or an asset back to the original crime. Laundered money is still technically an illicit gain, but after enough scrubbing, might not be legally seizable.
The definition for "accessory" in a legal sense is defined by Collins as: [H]elping in an unlawful act. Additionally, you can find this term used in literature. For example:... If the law has been outraged, the gentleman has been at least an unintentional accessory and whether this fact... Hope this is helpful!
An illicit intimacy between a man and a woman. (Although today, one should probably write that as an illicit intimacy regardless of the sex of the two parties: man and man, man and woman, woman and man, woman and woman.) However, both debuted in the early 19 th century, so it is probably not right to claim the one the elder use.
Medicine (noun) - 1) Referring to the field itself, the profession of healing. Medication (noun) - 1) The act of using a method from the field of medicine to treat someone. Medicate (verb) - 1) To treat someone using a method from the field of medicine. As for the pills themselves, I would refer to them as pills, drugs, or as medical substances.
While it doesn't exactly mention it in the definition, I commonly hear it used to describe exactly what you're looking for. to lower in estimation or importance; to utter slanderous and abusive statements against : defame; Edit: I thought a little more about what you said about vilify, and how it doesn't really fit.