Definition of license

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License (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..

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Plenary :: Plenary (a.) Full; entire; complete; absolute; as, a plenary license; plenary authority..
Placard :: Placard (n.) Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something..
Pilot :: Pilot (n.) Specifically, a person duly qualified, and licensed by authority, to conduct vessels into and out of a port, or in certain waters, for a fixed rate of fees..
Plenipotentiary :: Plenipotentiary (a.) Containing or conferring full power; invested with full power; as, plenipotentiary license; plenipotentiary ministers..
Bandon :: Bandon (n.) Disposal; control; license.
Effrenation :: Effrenation (n.) Unbridled license; unruliness.
Limiter :: Limiter (n.) A friar licensed to beg within certain bounds, or whose duty was limited to a certain district..
Licenser :: Licenser (n.) One who gives a license; as, a licenser of the press..
Patent :: Patent (a.) The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent..
Gaber-lunzie :: Gaber-lunzie (n.) A beggar with a wallet; a licensed beggar.
Badger :: Badger (n.) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
Tavern :: Tavern (n.) A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities..
Licentiate :: Licentiate (n.) One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty, as if having a license therefor..
Publican :: Publican (n.) The keeper of an inn or public house; one licensed to retail beer, spirits, or wine..
Presume :: Presume (v. i.) To venture, go, or act, by an assumption of leave or authority not granted; to go beyond what is warranted by the circumstances of the case; to venture beyond license; to take liberties; -- often with on or upon before the ground of confidence..
Licensed :: Licensed (a.) Having a license; permitted or authorized by license; as, a licensed victualer; a licensed traffic..
Saturnalia :: Saturnalia (n. pl.) The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves..
Auction :: Auction (n.) A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue..
Revoke :: Revoke (v. t.) Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like..
Saturnalia :: Saturnalia (n. pl.) Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence..
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