slovo | definícia |
licence (mass) | licence
- licencia, povolenie |
licence (encz) | licence,licence n: Ritchie |
licence (encz) | licence,povolení n: Ritchie |
licence (encz) | licence,řidičský průkaz Ritchie |
licence (czen) | licence,franchisen: Pino |
licence (czen) | licence,licencen: Ritchie |
licence (czen) | licence,licencesn: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
licence (czen) | licence,licensen: Zdeněk Brož |
licence (czen) | licence,patentn: Petr Prášek |
licence (gcide) | licence \licence\ (l[imac]"sens), licenced \licenced\, licencee
\licencee\
Same as license, licensed, licensee.
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licence (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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licence (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, licence]
2: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable
rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) [syn:
license, licence]
3: a legal document giving official permission to do something
[syn: license, licence, permit]
v 1: authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in
this state" [syn: license, licence, certify] [ant:
decertify, derecognise, derecognize] |
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