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<blockquote>To have a <b>license</b> and a leave at London to dwell. <i>P. Plowman.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The document granting such permission.</def>

<i>Addison.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.</def>

<blockquote><b>License</b> they mean when they cry liberty. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>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>as, poetic <ex>license</ex>; grammatical <ex>license</ex>, etc.</as></def>

<syn>Syn. -- Leave; liberty; permission.</syn>

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<h1>License</h1> <Xpage=849>

<hw>Li"cense</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Licensed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Licensing</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; <as>as, to <ex>license</ex> a man to preach</as>.</def>

<i>Milton. Shak.</i>

<h1>Licensed</h1> <Xpage=849>

<hw>Li"censed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having a license; permitted or authorized by license; <as>as, a <ex>licensed</ex> victualer; a <ex>licensed</ex> traffic.</as></def>

<cs><col>Licensed victualer</col>, <cd>one who has a license to keep an in or eating house; esp., a victualer who has a license to sell intoxicating liquors.</cd></cs>

<h1>Licensee</h1> <Xpage=849>

<hw>Li`cen*see"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>The person to whom a license is given.</def>

<h1>Licenser</h1> <Xpage=849>

<hw>Li"cens*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who gives a license; <as>as, a <ex>licenser</ex> of the press</as>.</def>

<h1>Licensure</h1> <Xpage=849>

<hw>Li"cen*sure</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A licensing.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Licentiate</h1> <Xpage=849>

<hw>Li*cen"ti*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>licentiatus</ets>, fr. <ets>licentiare</ets> to allow to do anything, fr. L. <ets>licentia</ets> license. See <er>License</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who has a license to exercise a profession; <as>as, a <ex>licentiate</ex> in medicine or theology</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The college of physicians, in July, 1687, published an edict, requiring all the fellows, candidates, and <b>licentiates</b>, to give gratuitous advice to the neighboring poor. <i>Johnson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty, as if having a license therefor.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Hall.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>On the continent of Europe, a university degree intermediate between that of bachelor and that of doctor.</def>