unlicensedadj.

Brit.

/(ˌ)ʌnˈlʌɪs(ə)nst/, U.S.

/ˌənˈlaɪsnst/

Forms: see un- prefix¹ and license v. and -ed suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, licence n., -ed suffix²; un- prefix¹, license v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly < un- prefix¹ + licence n. + -ed suffix², and partly < un- prefix¹ + license v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare later licensed adj.

a. Of a person, organization, etc.: lacking formal permission from a constituted authority to do or have something; that pursues an occupation or carries out an activity without an official licence. Cf. licence n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [adjective] > having a licence > not

unlicensed1563

unlicensed1577

illicentiatea1659

licenceless1906

1563 Abp. M. Parker Articles sig. A.iii Whether they admitte any to preatche vnlicenced, or put by any that hath licence.

1581 M. Hanmer Great Bragge & Challenge Confuted f. 24 The maner of old and the vse receiued in the Church hath bene, that none vnlicensed, vnexamined, vntryed, and vnknowen, shoulde be permitted to preache.

1627 Articles enquired Diocesse of Carlile sig. B3 What Physician or Chyrurgion is in your parish vnlicensed, and beeing not a Doctor of Physicke in either of the Vniuersities, doth practise physike?

1676 Philos. Trans. 1675 (Royal Soc.) 10 513 Proceedings..against Empiricks and Unlicensed persons.

1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles ii. i. 154 A doubtful Drug unlicens'd Doctors fear.

1751 Act 24 George II c. 40. §11 in J. Cay Statutes at Large (1758) VI. 48 If any..Person shall knowingly sell or deliver..any Quantity of distilled Spirituous Liquors..unto any unlicensed Retailer.., such..Person shall forfeit ten Pounds.

1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation ii. xi. 342 A fine..rigorously exacted from unlicensed dealers.

1871 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 June 6/1 Merely sham clubs got up for the benefit of unlicensed publicans as means of evading the licensing laws.

1934 Times 4 Jan. 5/5 He was driving the car for another man, who was duly insured, but the policy did not cover an unlicensed driver.

1967 T. Wilder Eighth Day ii. 110 She was, besides many other things, an unlicensed veterinary doctor.

2014 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 6 Sept. 2 It estimated there were 100,000 firearms held by unlicensed owners.

b. For which no formal licence has been granted by a constituted authority; owned, operated, done, or produced without a licence.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [adjective] > having a licence > not

unlicensed1563

unlicensed1577

illicentiatea1659

licenceless1906

1577 in Beverley Borough Rec. (1933) 12 Séssío pacis. Discharge of recognizance 3s.; unlicensed brewing 5s. Total 8s.

1634 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. IV: MSS Earl of Westmorland &c. (1885) 428 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576) XLI. 51 100 unlicensed alehowses.

1798 M. Edgeworth & R. L. Edgeworth Pract. Educ. I. ix. 247 Unlicensed lottery wheels are called little goes.

1837 S. Lewis Topogr. Dict. Ireland 644/2 Unlicensed whiskey is still made in great quantities in the mountainous districts.

1859 Lowell (Mass.) Daily Citizen & News 18 Apr. Whoever keeps an unlicensed dog shall forfeit $10 to the town.

1896 Jrnl. Royal Colonial Inst. Apr. 402 You may stop licensed gambling, but you cannot put a stop to the far more pernicious practice of unlicensed gambling.

1939 Times 3 July 20/5 He drives an unlicensed car at high speeds through built-up areas, always hooting through the night.

1989 Life Autumn 146/6 (caption) [He] shot the youth and three companions with an unlicensed .38.

2007 Yorks. Evening Post (Nexis) 7 July Three Leeds City Council employees..informed us that we were not allowed to drink outside as we were on ‘unlicensed premises’.

c. English History. Of a publication or printing press: produced or operated in contravention of the rules established by the Licensing Order of 1643. historical after 17th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > printing > publishing > [adjective] > published > without a license

unlicensed1643

1643 Order of Parl. Regulating Printing 6 All unlicensed Printing Presses, and all Presses any way imployed in the printing of scandalous or unlicensed Papers.

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 18 All scandalous and unlicenc't books.

1647 (title) An Ordinance against unlicensed or scandalous Pamphlets.

1703 H. Wanley Let. 19 Oct. (1989) 229 There are..many other unlicensed books, or books printed beyond the Sea in English, or Latin, by English men.

1765 J. Rayner Digest Law Conc. Libels xxvi. 116 Not to print or publish any unlicensed Books.

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xv. 517 Even during the existence of a censorship, a host of unlicensed publications..bore witness to the inefficacy of its restrictions.

1897 M. J. Fuller Life J. Davenant 483 Men's appetite for unlicensed literature would not be baulked, and clandestine presses continued to pour forth biting and pungent political squibs and stinging pamphlets.

1960 P. M. Handover Printing in London 66 He did not believe that the Company was sincere in its professed willingness to suppress unlicensed periodicals.

2014 Huntington Libr. Q. 77 309 Though licensing had lapsed in 1640, Parliament had reinstated the practice in 1643 and by 1645 had significantly stepped up its efforts to rein in the clandestine printing of unlicensed books that threatened its authority.

2. More generally.

†a. Of a person, group, etc.: that has not been given authority, sanction, or permission to do something. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [adjective] > permitted or allowed > by authority > not

unlicensed1609

1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles iii. 17 (Why as it were vnlicensed of your loues) he would depart? Ile giue some light vnto you.

1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. To Rdr. sig. A 3^v The Papists restraint of the Laity unlicensed, from reading it translated in a known Tongue.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiii. 175 To warn the thoughtless self-confiding train, No more unlicens'd thus to brave the main.

1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc iv. 414 Did she upon thy parting steps bestow Her free-will blessing, or hast thou set forth..unlicensed and unblest?

1811 W. R. Spencer Poems 92 Why all unlicensed, thus th' intruder came, To beat in cypress groves for sprightly game?

1851 C. Brontë in E. Brontë & A. Brontë Wuthering Heights & Agnes Grey I. 6 Emily was not a person..on the recesses of whose mind and feelings, even those nearest and dearest to her could, with impunity, intrude unlicensed.

1907 Pearson's Mag. Jan. 95/1 During our absence several entirely unlicensed persons had contrived to enter our house without paying and had taken the best seats.

b. Of an activity, undertaking, etc.: for which permission or authority has not been granted; that has not been sanctioned, approved, or agreed to.

ΚΠ

1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke vi. 45 Among them also some to do a friend an vnlicenced friendship..will haply sometimes offer a casuall good turne.

1685 J. Norris Serm. preached before Univ. Oxf. 12 Neither is this account wholely unlicens'd by Authority, for I find some hints and intimations of it in the School of Plato.

a1704 T. Brown Dialogues of Dead in 4th Vol. Wks. (1720) 184 Is any..of the good People of Doctors Commons [turned] to unlicens'd Marriages?

1742 A. Pope New Dunciad 220 For Attic Phrase in plato let them seek; I poach in Suidas for unlicenc'd Greek.

1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose Introd., in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 135 No less would our sexton..have held it an unlicensed intrusion.

1858 E. Robinson Mauleverer's Divorce I. 181 Nothing could exceed my indignation on finding myself the subject of a familiarity so completely unlicensed and audacious as I had every reason to consider this!

1926 Classical Weekly 19 186/1 Such of the primal and authentic parts of the Odyssey as have survived this unlicensed manipulation.

2000 Jrnl. Eccl. Hist. 51 161 The occasional presentations of clergy for unlicensed absence from benefices, or for playing at bowls or dice for money.

3. That does not require official permission; for which no licence is needed; not controlled or regulated by an official authority.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [adjective] > having specific immunities or privileges

wreck-free1205

wrackfree1570

unlicensed1644

clergyable1762

1644 J. Milton (title) Areopagitica: a Speech..For the Liberty of Vnlicenc'd Printing, To the Parlament of England.

1792 A. Murphy Ess. on Life & Genius Dr. Johnson in S. Johnson Wks. I. 179 Must the liberty of unlicensed printing be denied to the friends of the British constitution?

1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. ix. 146 This act was kept in force..until 1694, when..it expired. The liberty of unlicensed printing dates from that period.

1878 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 1 June 6/4 The Committee on Licenses met yesterday afternoon, and agreed to recommend that license fees be imposed upon certain hitherto unlicensed industries.

1970 Kiplinger Mag. Mar. 13/1 The others are tended by a neighbor, a relative, an informal, unlicensed neighborhood operation or, saddest of all, left to shift for themselves.

1991 Today's Parent Aug. 28/3 If you are looking for unlicensed care, by choice or by default, your neighbourhood and workplace networks can be your best resources.

2015 Internat. N. Y. Times (Nexis) 17 Feb. 16 Wi-Fi..is an unregulated, unlicensed technology that just about any individual or business can set up so long as they can tap into an Internet connection.

4. In extended use: unregulated; unrestrained; lawless.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of power > [adjective] > not regulated or controlled

unordainedc1390

unordinalc1400

unmannered1435

unorderly1566

uncontrolled1594

unmanaged1598

unordinate1610

unregulated?1623

unlicensed1680

unpoliced1753

1680 W. Manby Some Considerations towards Peace & Quietness in Relig. 10 The question..is not whether the Scriptures may be read in the Vulgar Language? no, that which S. Hierome resented, was the promiscuous and unlicens'd use of them by all sorts of ill dispos'd People.

1689 R. Gould Poems 66^* But who, alas! can scape sharp Envy's sting..Nothing is free from it's unlicens'd rage.

1736 M. Chandler Descr. Bath (ed. 3) 46 Your sprightly Wit, that all admire, Is an unlicens'd lawless Fire.

1794 Mass. Spy 16 Apr. 3/2 A few days since, we experienced a scene of the most unlicensed mobism.

1828 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. I. 183 This prelate..with much personal risk, owing to the unlicensed state of the country,..travelled with his suit..as far as Kirkcudbright.

1867 I. Banks Stung to Quick (1881) v. 19 I live in constant fear lest the unlicensed tongue of either my wife or daughter should involve me in some serious lawsuit.

1907 A. Askew & C. Askew Lucy Gort x. 115 He came of a headstrong, reckless race—a family famous for their amours and wild, unlicensed passions.

1979 Folk Music Jrnl. 3 447 It is only as a result of enjoyment and involvement that the bystanders would want to participate in such unlicensed behaviour.

2003 D. Fairer Eng. Poetry of Eighteenth Cent. (2014) vii. 135 An autocratically imposed stability was to be avoided as much as an unlicensed anarchy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	unlicensed
释义	unlicensedadj. Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈlʌɪs(ə)nst/, U.S. /ˌənˈlaɪsnst/ Forms: see un- prefix¹ and license v. and -ed suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, licence n., -ed suffix²; un- prefix¹, license v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: Partly < un- prefix¹ + licence n. + -ed suffix², and partly < un- prefix¹ + license v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare later licensed adj. 1. a. Of a person, organization, etc.: lacking formal permission from a constituted authority to do or have something; that pursues an occupation or carries out an activity without an official licence. Cf. licence n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [adjective] > having a licence > not unlicensed1563 unlicensed1577 illicentiatea1659 licenceless1906 1563 Abp. M. Parker Articles sig. A.iii Whether they admitte any to preatche vnlicenced, or put by any that hath licence. 1581 M. Hanmer Great Bragge & Challenge Confuted f. 24 The maner of old and the vse receiued in the Church hath bene, that none vnlicensed, vnexamined, vntryed, and vnknowen, shoulde be permitted to preache. 1627 Articles enquired Diocesse of Carlile sig. B3 What Physician or Chyrurgion is in your parish vnlicensed, and beeing not a Doctor of Physicke in either of the Vniuersities, doth practise physike? 1676 Philos. Trans. 1675 (Royal Soc.) 10 513 Proceedings..against Empiricks and Unlicensed persons. 1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles ii. i. 154 A doubtful Drug unlicens'd Doctors fear. 1751 Act 24 George II c. 40. §11 in J. Cay Statutes at Large (1758) VI. 48 If any..Person shall knowingly sell or deliver..any Quantity of distilled Spirituous Liquors..unto any unlicensed Retailer.., such..Person shall forfeit ten Pounds. 1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation ii. xi. 342 A fine..rigorously exacted from unlicensed dealers. 1871 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 June 6/1 Merely sham clubs got up for the benefit of unlicensed publicans as means of evading the licensing laws. 1934 Times 4 Jan. 5/5 He was driving the car for another man, who was duly insured, but the policy did not cover an unlicensed driver. 1967 T. Wilder Eighth Day ii. 110 She was, besides many other things, an unlicensed veterinary doctor. 2014 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 6 Sept. 2 It estimated there were 100,000 firearms held by unlicensed owners. b. For which no formal licence has been granted by a constituted authority; owned, operated, done, or produced without a licence. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [adjective] > having a licence > not unlicensed1563 unlicensed1577 illicentiatea1659 licenceless1906 1577 in Beverley Borough Rec. (1933) 12 Séssío pacis. Discharge of recognizance 3s.; unlicensed brewing 5s. Total 8s. 1634 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. IV: MSS Earl of Westmorland &c. (1885) 428 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576) XLI. 51 100 unlicensed alehowses. 1798 M. Edgeworth & R. L. Edgeworth Pract. Educ. I. ix. 247 Unlicensed lottery wheels are called little goes. 1837 S. Lewis Topogr. Dict. Ireland 644/2 Unlicensed whiskey is still made in great quantities in the mountainous districts. 1859 Lowell (Mass.) Daily Citizen & News 18 Apr. Whoever keeps an unlicensed dog shall forfeit $10 to the town. 1896 Jrnl. Royal Colonial Inst. Apr. 402 You may stop licensed gambling, but you cannot put a stop to the far more pernicious practice of unlicensed gambling. 1939 Times 3 July 20/5 He drives an unlicensed car at high speeds through built-up areas, always hooting through the night. 1989 Life Autumn 146/6 (caption) [He] shot the youth and three companions with an unlicensed .38. 2007 Yorks. Evening Post (Nexis) 7 July Three Leeds City Council employees..informed us that we were not allowed to drink outside as we were on ‘unlicensed premises’. c. English History. Of a publication or printing press: produced or operated in contravention of the rules established by the Licensing Order of 1643. historical after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > publishing > [adjective] > published > without a license unlicensed1643 1643 Order of Parl. Regulating Printing 6 All unlicensed Printing Presses, and all Presses any way imployed in the printing of scandalous or unlicensed Papers. 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 18 All scandalous and unlicenc't books. 1647 (title) An Ordinance against unlicensed or scandalous Pamphlets. 1703 H. Wanley Let. 19 Oct. (1989) 229 There are..many other unlicensed books, or books printed beyond the Sea in English, or Latin, by English men. 1765 J. Rayner Digest Law Conc. Libels xxvi. 116 Not to print or publish any unlicensed Books. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xv. 517 Even during the existence of a censorship, a host of unlicensed publications..bore witness to the inefficacy of its restrictions. 1897 M. J. Fuller Life J. Davenant 483 Men's appetite for unlicensed literature would not be baulked, and clandestine presses continued to pour forth biting and pungent political squibs and stinging pamphlets. 1960 P. M. Handover Printing in London 66 He did not believe that the Company was sincere in its professed willingness to suppress unlicensed periodicals. 2014 Huntington Libr. Q. 77 309 Though licensing had lapsed in 1640, Parliament had reinstated the practice in 1643 and by 1645 had significantly stepped up its efforts to rein in the clandestine printing of unlicensed books that threatened its authority. 2. More generally. †a. Of a person, group, etc.: that has not been given authority, sanction, or permission to do something. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [adjective] > permitted or allowed > by authority > not unlicensed1609 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles iii. 17 (Why as it were vnlicensed of your loues) he would depart? Ile giue some light vnto you. View more context for this quotation 1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. To Rdr. sig. A 3^v The Papists restraint of the Laity unlicensed, from reading it translated in a known Tongue. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiii. 175 To warn the thoughtless self-confiding train, No more unlicens'd thus to brave the main. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc iv. 414 Did she upon thy parting steps bestow Her free-will blessing, or hast thou set forth..unlicensed and unblest? 1811 W. R. Spencer Poems 92 Why all unlicensed, thus th' intruder came, To beat in cypress groves for sprightly game? 1851 C. Brontë in E. Brontë & A. Brontë Wuthering Heights & Agnes Grey I. 6 Emily was not a person..on the recesses of whose mind and feelings, even those nearest and dearest to her could, with impunity, intrude unlicensed. 1907 Pearson's Mag. Jan. 95/1 During our absence several entirely unlicensed persons had contrived to enter our house without paying and had taken the best seats. b. Of an activity, undertaking, etc.: for which permission or authority has not been granted; that has not been sanctioned, approved, or agreed to. ΚΠ 1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke vi. 45 Among them also some to do a friend an vnlicenced friendship..will haply sometimes offer a casuall good turne. 1685 J. Norris Serm. preached before Univ. Oxf. 12 Neither is this account wholely unlicens'd by Authority, for I find some hints and intimations of it in the School of Plato. a1704 T. Brown Dialogues of Dead in 4th Vol. Wks. (1720) 184 Is any..of the good People of Doctors Commons [turned] to unlicens'd Marriages? 1742 A. Pope New Dunciad 220 For Attic Phrase in plato let them seek; I poach in Suidas for unlicenc'd Greek. 1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose Introd., in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 135 No less would our sexton..have held it an unlicensed intrusion. 1858 E. Robinson Mauleverer's Divorce I. 181 Nothing could exceed my indignation on finding myself the subject of a familiarity so completely unlicensed and audacious as I had every reason to consider this! 1926 Classical Weekly 19 186/1 Such of the primal and authentic parts of the Odyssey as have survived this unlicensed manipulation. 2000 Jrnl. Eccl. Hist. 51 161 The occasional presentations of clergy for unlicensed absence from benefices, or for playing at bowls or dice for money. 3. That does not require official permission; for which no licence is needed; not controlled or regulated by an official authority. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [adjective] > having specific immunities or privileges wreck-free1205 wrackfree1570 unlicensed1644 clergyable1762 1644 J. Milton (title) Areopagitica: a Speech..For the Liberty of Vnlicenc'd Printing, To the Parlament of England. 1792 A. Murphy Ess. on Life & Genius Dr. Johnson in S. Johnson Wks. I. 179 Must the liberty of unlicensed printing be denied to the friends of the British constitution? 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. ix. 146 This act was kept in force..until 1694, when..it expired. The liberty of unlicensed printing dates from that period. 1878 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 1 June 6/4 The Committee on Licenses met yesterday afternoon, and agreed to recommend that license fees be imposed upon certain hitherto unlicensed industries. 1970 Kiplinger Mag. Mar. 13/1 The others are tended by a neighbor, a relative, an informal, unlicensed neighborhood operation or, saddest of all, left to shift for themselves. 1991 Today's Parent Aug. 28/3 If you are looking for unlicensed care, by choice or by default, your neighbourhood and workplace networks can be your best resources. 2015 Internat. N. Y. Times (Nexis) 17 Feb. 16 Wi-Fi..is an unregulated, unlicensed technology that just about any individual or business can set up so long as they can tap into an Internet connection. 4. In extended use: unregulated; unrestrained; lawless. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of power > [adjective] > not regulated or controlled unordainedc1390 unordinalc1400 unmannered1435 unorderly1566 uncontrolled1594 unmanaged1598 unordinate1610 unregulated?1623 unlicensed1680 unpoliced1753 1680 W. Manby Some Considerations towards Peace & Quietness in Relig. 10 The question..is not whether the Scriptures may be read in the Vulgar Language? no, that which S. Hierome resented, was the promiscuous and unlicens'd use of them by all sorts of ill dispos'd People. 1689 R. Gould Poems 66^* But who, alas! can scape sharp Envy's sting..Nothing is free from it's unlicens'd rage. 1736 M. Chandler Descr. Bath (ed. 3) 46 Your sprightly Wit, that all admire, Is an unlicens'd lawless Fire. 1794 Mass. Spy 16 Apr. 3/2 A few days since, we experienced a scene of the most unlicensed mobism. 1828 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. I. 183 This prelate..with much personal risk, owing to the unlicensed state of the country,..travelled with his suit..as far as Kirkcudbright. 1867 I. Banks Stung to Quick (1881) v. 19 I live in constant fear lest the unlicensed tongue of either my wife or daughter should involve me in some serious lawsuit. 1907 A. Askew & C. Askew Lucy Gort x. 115 He came of a headstrong, reckless race—a family famous for their amours and wild, unlicensed passions. 1979 Folk Music Jrnl. 3 447 It is only as a result of enjoyment and involvement that the bystanders would want to participate in such unlicensed behaviour. 2003 D. Fairer Eng. Poetry of Eighteenth Cent. (2014) vii. 135 An autocratically imposed stability was to be avoided as much as an unlicensed anarchy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1563
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