License ¹

Definition: 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.

License ²

Definition: The document granting such permission.

License ³

Definition: Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.

License ⁴

Definition: 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.

License ⁵

Definition: To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach.

license ⁶

Definition: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization

license ⁷

Definition: a legal document giving official permission to do something

license ⁸

Definition: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)

license ⁹

Definition: 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

license ¹⁰

Definition: authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state"