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单词 license
释义 li·cense
I. noun
or li·cence \ˈlīsən(t)s\
(-s ; see sense 5)
Etymology: Middle English licence, from Middle French, from Latin licentia, from licent-, licens (present participle of licēre to be permitted, be for sale) + -ia -y; akin to Latvian līkt to come to terms
1. : permission to act
 < go from hence without their license — Daniel Defoe >
2.
 a. : unusual freedom of action permitted because of extenuating circumstances or special prerogatives
  < in the decoration the Chinese silversmiths had been allowed the utmost license — Osbert Lancaster >
  < reason and common sense were given full license to take no notice of pedants — Stuart Hampshire >
  < had a stranger's license to go everywhere — Nadine Gordimer >
 b.
  (1) : excessive freedom : the abuse of liberties granted
   < a wave of municipal reform … for the correction of what was regarded as license — Havelock Ellis >
   < Caesar's legions … were enjoying their victory in the license which is miscalled liberty — J.A.Froude >
   < freedom of the press also carries the grave responsibility that it not be turned into licenseTime >
  (2) : abusive disregard for rules of personal conduct : licentiousness
   < like most women of that character and those circumstances her license was peculiarly unlimited — Tennessee Williams >
   < prenuptial chastity in one tribe and adolescent license in another — Ruth Benedict >
3.
 a.
  (1) : a right or permission granted in accordance with law by a competent authority to engage in some business or occupation, to do some act, or to engage in some transaction which but for such license would be unlawful
   < a license to sell liquor >
   < a marriage license >
   < a license to practice medicine >
  (2) : a document evidencing a license granted
 b. : authority or permission of one having no possessory rights in land to do something on that land which would otherwise be unlawful or a trespass — distinguished from lease
 c. : the grant by a patent holder to another of any of the rights embodied in the patent short of an assignment of a fractional interest therein and short of assigning all the rights protected by the patent
 d. : the grant of some but not all of the rights embraced in a copyright
 e. Canada : a free miner's certificate
4. : a deviation from strict fact, form, or rule utilized by an artist or writer on the assumption that it will be permitted for the sake of the advantage or effect gained
 < permitting myself a certain license of treatment, the better to round out the picture — S.H.Adams >
 < has little truck with those who have taken literary license — D.L.Horner >
5. plural license chiefly Midland
 a. : formal permission from local authorities
 b. : a document embodying such permission
  < get a pair o' license fer to marry — J.W.Riley >
II. transitive verb
also licence \“\
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English licencen, from licence, n.
1.
 a. : to grant or issue a license to (someone) usually after special qualifications have been met
  < was licensed and later ordained to the ministry — J.C.Brauer >
 b. : to permit or authorize especially by formal license
  < patented processes were freely licensed in a general effort to do everything and anything to help win the war — Marquis James >
2.
 a. : to accord permission or consent to : allow
  < at a wedding everybody seemed licensed to kiss everyone else — Irwin Shaw >
  < a popular novelist may be licensed to draw on his imagination — A.T.Quiller-Couch >
  < an able man licensed by the times to do pretty much as he pleased — J.H.Hanford >
 b. [Middle French licencier, from licence, n.] archaic : to give permission for departure to : dismiss
  < thus licensed, the chief … left the presence chamber — Sir Walter Scott >
Synonyms: see authorize
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