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English Dictionary: licence	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for licence
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
licence n 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 Synonym(s): license, licence freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) Synonym(s): license, licence a legal document giving official permission to do something Synonym(s): license, licence, permit v authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state" Synonym(s): license, licence, certify Antonym(s): decertify, derecognise, derecognize
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
License \Li"cense\ (l[imac]"s[eit]ns), n. [Written also {licence}.] [F. licence, L. licentia, fr. licere to be permitted, prob. orig., to be left free to one; akin to linquere to leave. See {Loan}, and cf. {Illicit}, {Leisure}.] 1. 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. To have a license and a leave at London to dwell. --P. Plowman. 2. The document granting such permission. --Addison. 3. Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety. License they mean when they cry liberty. --Milton. 4. 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. Syn: Leave; liberty; permission.