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licensing, vbl. n.|ˈlaɪsənsɪŋ| [f. license v. + -ing1.] The action of license v. in its various senses.
1588J. Udall Demonstr. Discip. (Arb.) 25 Licencing of wandring preachers, is contrary to the word of God. 1761Mem. to Ld. Mayor in Entick London (1766) IV. 369 The licencing public-houses by the county magistrates. 1777Parsons Let. in 15th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. 1 (1896) 232 The inhabitants..dread the licensing of a theatre as an evil which they would wish to prevent. 1827in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 317 Regulations for the licensing of Alehouses. attrib.1825Macaulay Ess., Milton (1887) 28 With a view to the same great object, he attacked the licensing system. 1870Daily News 5 Dec., Reformatories, and licensing bills, and trades unions, and municipal reforms. 1880Athenæum 18 Sept 372/1 The multiplicity of universities and licensing boards is the greatest evil in British and Irish medicine. |