License
['laɪsns]
Definition
(noun.) the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization.
(noun.) a legal document giving official permission to do something.
(noun.) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech).
(noun.) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint; 'when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near'- Will Durant; 'the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum'- Edmund Burke.
(verb.) authorize officially; 'I am licensed to practice law in this state'.
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Definition
(n.) Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such permission would be illegal; a grant of permission; as, a license to preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating liquors.
(n.) The document granting such permission.
(n.) Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.
(n.) That deviation from strict fact, form, or rule, in which an artist or writer indulges, assuming that it will be permitted for the sake of the advantage or effect gained; as, poetic license; grammatical license, etc.
(v. t.) To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach.
Checker: Nellie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Permission, privilege, leave, right.[2]. Permit, warrant.[3]. Laxity, excessive liberty, exorbitant freedom.
v. a. Permit, allow, grant authority to, give a permit or warrant to.
Editor: Verna
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Permit, allow, indulge
ANT:Restraint, disallow, withhold, forbid, prohibit
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Definition
n. a being allowed: leave: grant of permission as for manufacturing a patented article or for the sale of intoxicants: the document by which authority is conferred: excess or abuse of freedom: a departure from rules or standards in art or literature.—v.t. Lī′cense to grant license to: to authorise or permit.—adj. Lī′censable.—ns. Licensee′ one to whom license is granted; Lī′censer one who grants license or permission: one authorised to license; Lī′censure act of licensing; Licen′tiate among Presbyterians a person authorised by a Presbytery to preach: on the Continent an academical dignity forming the step from the baccalaureate to the doctorate.—adj. Licen′tious indulging in excessive freedom: given to the indulgence of the animal passions: dissolute.—adv. Licen′tiously.—n. Licen′tiousness.—High license a mode of regulating the traffic in alcoholic drinks by exacting a comparatively large sum for the privilege of selling such; Special license license given by the Archbishop of Canterbury permitting the marriage of two specified persons without banns and at a place and time other than those prescribed by law.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a license, is an omen of disputes and loss. Married women will exasperate your cheerfulness. For a woman to see a marriage license, foretells that she will soon enter unpleasant bonds, which will humiliate her pride.
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Examples
- How about the license? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Women were playing; they were masked, some of them; this license was allowed in these wild times of carnival. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I have the license and here is the preacher. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was agreed that on the morrow Canler was to drive to town and bring back the license and a minister. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The license was useless at Anglebury. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I want to get the license tomorrow, so that we can be married quietly before you leave for Wisconsin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- In countries where the rigour of the law suffers no poachers, the licensed hunter is not in a much better condition. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I have licensed this person. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Torture in a public school is as much licensed as the knout in Russia. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This invention of Mr. Edison has been recognized by the larger cement manufacturers, and there is every prospect now that the entire trade will take licenses under his kiln patents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is your respectability and humanity that licenses and protects his brutality. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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