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unˈlicensed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Of persons, etc.:
a. Not authorized by a formal license to carry on some occupation, industry, etc.
1634in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Commission App. IV. 428, 100 unlicensed alehowses. 1643[see 2 a]. 1746Francis tr. Horace, Epist. ii. i. 154 A doubtful Drug unlicens'd Doctors fear. 1845McCulloch Taxation ii. x, A fine..rigorously exacted from unlicensed dealers. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xx. IV. 417 With great difficulty and after long search the most important of all the unlicensed presses was discovered.
b. Not furnished with authority, sanction, or formal permission to do something.
1608Shakes. Per. i. iii. 17 Why, as it were unlicens'd of your loves, He would depart, I'll give some light unto you. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. To Rdr. A 3 b, The Papists restraint of the Laity unlicensed, from reading it translated in a known Tongue. 1725Pope Odyss. xiii. 175 To warn the thoughtless self-confiding train No more unlicens'd thus to brave the main. 1795Southey Joan of Arc iv. 414 Did she upon thy parting steps bestow Her free-will blessing, or hast thou set forth..unlicensed and unblest?
2. a. Of books, etc.: Published without licence.
1643Order in Milton's Areop. (Arb.) 27 All unlicensed Printing Presses, and all Presses any way imployed in the printing of scandalous or unlicensed Papers. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 53 All scandalous and unlicenc't books. 1647(title), An Ordinance against unlicensed or scandalous Pamphlets.
b. Not authorized or sanctioned.
1649Jer. Taylor Apol. Liturgy §135 Many such cases will occurre in..unlicenc'd prayers. a1704T. Brown Dial. Dead, Reas. Oaths Wks. 1720 IV. 184 Is any..of the good People of Doctors Commons [turned] to unlicens'd Marriages? 1728Pope Dunciad iv. 228 For Attic Phrase in Plato let them seek, I poach in Suidas for unlicens'd Greek. 1819Scott Leg. Montrose Introd., No less would our sexton..have held it an unlicensed intrusion. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. II. 193 The clergy had promised to abstain..from unlicensed legislation.
3. Free from requiring a licence.
1644Milton (title), Areopagitica: a Speech..For the Liberty of Vnlicenc'd Printing, To the Parlament of England. 1863H. Cox Instit. i. ix. 146 This act was kept in force..until 1694, when..it expired. The liberty of unlicensed printing dates from that period.
4. Unregulated, lawless. rare—1.
1828Tytler Hist. Scot. I. 183 This prelate..with much personal risk, owing to the unlicensed state of the country,..travelled with his suit..as far as Kirkcudbright. |