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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
licence
    n 1: 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 [syn: license, licence]
    2: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable
       rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) [syn:
       license, licence]
    3: a legal document giving official permission to do something
       [syn: license, licence, permit]
    v 1: authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in
         this state" [syn: license, licence, certify] [ant:
         decertify, derecognise, derecognize]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
licence \licence\ (l[imac]"sens), licenced \licenced\, licencee
\licencee\
   Same as license, licensed, licensee.
   [WordNet 1.5]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
License \Li"cense\ (l[imac]"sens), n. [Written also licence.]
   [F. licence, L. licentia, fr. licere to be permitted, prob.
   orig., to be left free to one; akin to linquere to leave. See
   Loan, and cf. Illicit, Leisure.]
   1. 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.
      [1913 Webster]

            To have a license and a leave at London to dwell.
                                                  --P. Plowman.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. The document granting such permission. --Addison.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of
      law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.
      [1913 Webster]

            License they mean when they cry liberty. --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

   4. 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.
      [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Leave; liberty; permission.
        [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for licence:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
authority, authorization, carte blanche, certificate, charter, credentials, departure, deviation, dispensation, disregard, divergence, entitlement, free choice, freedom, latitude, leave, liberty, nonconformity, papers, permission, permit, privilege, right
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