An official document authorizing a person to travel under this privilege of protection.

A formal, usually a printed or written permission from a constituted authority to do something, e.g. to marry, to print or publish a book, to preach…

Authority or warrant to do something. Obsolete. rare.

Originally: the word ‘fiat’ itself, or a formula containing it, by which a competent authority gave his sanction to a proposed arrangement, to the…

= licence, n.; in quot. 1676 attributive.

In University use: Some kind of licence or permit.

figurative. A licence, a sanction. Obsolete. rare.

An express authoritative permission or recognition (e.g. of an action, procedure, custom, institution, etc.).

a certificate signed by a ship's surgeon entitling a sailor to a payment or pension in compensation for a disability or injury suffered while in…

A warrant issued for the declaration of a post entry (see post entry, n. 2).

The action of sanctioning.

a warrant authorizing the delivery of wine from bond.

(a) A permit issued to an aviator (see quot. 1926). (b) A permit allowing a motor-vehicle, etc., to be taken across a frontier. (c) A permit giving…