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licensed, ppl. a.|ˈlaɪsənst|
[f. license v. + -ed1 or licence n. + -ed2.]
1. To whom or for which a licence has been granted; provided with a licence. Now often spec. (of a house, etc.) licensed for the sale of alcoholic liquor. licensed victualler: see victualler.
1632Sherwood, Licenced, licencié. 1645Milton Colast. Wks. (1847) 222 The reasons of your licensed pamphlet are good. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. viii. 325 There are now eight hundred licensed coaches. 1817W. Selwyn Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 926 For the purpose of the licensed act of trading..the person licensed was to be considered as virtually an adopted subject of this country. 1868Nat. Encycl. I. 414 A constable may at all times enter licensed premises.
2. To whom or which liberty or free scope is allowed; privileged, recognized, regular, tolerated.
1593Donne Sat. iv. 228 He..Iests like a licens'd fool, commands the law. 1640H. Mill Nights Search 123 He..turn'd her out; now she's a licenst whore. 1742Pope Dunc. iv. 587 From Stage to Stage the licens'd Earl may run. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 32 The established professions were..licensed modes of witchcraft. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxiii, Some, doubtless, [retired] to the licensed freedoms of some tavern. 1850Tennyson In Mem. cxiii, Should licensed boldness gather force. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede vi, Imagination is a licensed trespasser. 1879Froude Cæsar xv. 229 Clodius was a licensed libertine. |