Licence

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  licence \licence\ (l[imac]"sens), licenced \licenced\, licencee
  \licencee\
     Same as {license}, {licensed}, {licensee}.
     [WordNet 1.5]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  License \Li"cense\ (l[imac]"sens), 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.
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              To have a license and a leave at London to dwell.
                                                    --P. Plowman.
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     2. The document granting such permission. --Addison.
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     3. Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of
        law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.
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              License they mean when they cry liberty. --Milton.
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     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.
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     Syn: Leave; liberty; permission.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  licence
       n 1: 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 [syn: {license}]
       2: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable
          rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
          [syn: {license}]
       3: a legal document giving official permission to do something
          [syn: {license}, {permit}]
       v : authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this
           state" [syn: {license}, {certify}] [ant: {decertify}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "licence":
     authority, authorization, carte blanche, certificate, charter,
     credentials, departure, deviation, dispensation, disregard,
     divergence, entitlement, free choice, freedom, latitude, leave,
     liberty, nonconformity, papers, permission, permit, privilege,
     right