| 单词 | by, with, without licence | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasby, with, without (a person's) licence  a.  Liberty (to do something), leave, permission. Now somewhat rare. †Also occasionally exemption from (something). †Formerly often in  licence and leave;  by, with, without (a person's) licence;  to get, give, have, obtain, take (a) licence. (Cf. leave n.1 Phrases 2.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > 			[noun]		 leaveeOE yleaveOE willOE grant?c1225 thaving?c1225 grantisea1300 licence1362 grace1389 pardona1425 libertyc1425 patiencec1425 permission1425 sufferingc1460 congee1477 legencea1500 withganga1500 favour1574 beleve1575 permittance1580 withgate1599 passage1622 sufferage1622 attolerance1676 sanction1738 permiss- society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > 			[noun]		 freedomeOE freeshiplOE exemptionc1380 immunityc1384 unpunishmentc1450 impunity1532 faculty1533 licence1551 vacuitya1620 1362    W. Langland Piers Plowman A. Prol. 82  				And askeþ leue and lycence at londun to dwelle. c1386    G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 855  				If I have licence of this worthy frere. 1422    T. Hoccleve Min. Poems 		(1892)	 223  				Now, sire, yit a word, by your licence. 1493    Charter in  A. Laing Lindores Abbey 		(1876)	 xvii. 179  				Anentis the making of out men burges but licens of the said abbot. a1500						 (?c1450)						    Merlin i. 17  				She ansuerde prayinge she myght speke with hir confessour; and they yaf hir lycence. a1513    H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge 		(1521)	  i. ii. sig. a.iiiiv  				Whose names we purpose, to shewe with lycens. 1526    Bible 		(Tyndale)	 John xix. f. clv  				And Pilate gave him licence. 1532						 (a1475)						    J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. 		(Digby 145)	 in  J. Fortescue-Aland Difference between Absolute & Limited Monarchy 		(1714)	 119  				Hou long any of them may be absent, hou he schal have his leve and licence..may be conceyvyd by leysure. 1548    Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. x  				The duke was banished..and yet without license of Kyng Richarde he is returned again into the realme. c1550    Complaynt Scotl. 		(1979)	 xvii. 115  				He gat neuyr lecens to marye, quhil on to the tyme, that [etc.]. 1551    R. Robinson tr.  T. More Vtopia  ii. sig. Jiiv  				The people..haue geuen a perpetual licence from labour to learnyng. 1640    Order Ho. Commons in  J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. 		(1692)	 I. 143  				Mr. R. H. has License to go and speak with Sir G. R. 1675    R. Baxter Catholick Theol.  ii. i. 122  				Doth God forbid it? No; he commandeth it, which is more than leave or licence. 1719    D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 247  				It would be difficult to go from hence without their License. 1761    D. Hume Hist. Eng. I. App. ii. 256  				If he sold his estate without licence from his lord. 1765    W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I.  i. i. 133  				The king..may..prohibit any of his subjects from going into foreign parts without licence. 1807    G. Crabbe Village 		(rev. ed.)	  in  Poems 23  				Who take a license round their fields to stray. 1838    C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece V. 81  				The declaration..was now interpreted..as a license to restore their political unity. 1861    J. S. Mill Utilitarianism v. 66  				Others would confine the license of disobedience to unjust laws. 1888    M. Morris Claverhouse vi. 110  				The same license was granted to him for dealing with all future criminals of the same class. < as lemmas | 
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