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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. |
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The document granting such permission. |
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Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of
law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety. |
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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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To permit or authorize by license; to give license to;
as, to license a man to preach. |
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