| 单词 |
license |
| 释义 |
li·cense
I. noun
or li·cence \ˈlīsən(t)s\
(-s ; see sense 5)
Etymology: Middle English licence, from Middle French, from Latin licentia, from licent-, licens (present participle of licēre to be permitted, be for sale) + -ia -y; akin to Latvian līkt to come to terms
1. : permission to act
< go from hence without their license — Daniel Defoe >
2.
a. : unusual freedom of action permitted because of extenuating circumstances or special prerogatives
< in the decoration the Chinese silversmiths had been allowed the utmost license — Osbert Lancaster >
< reason and common sense were given full license to take no notice of pedants — Stuart Hampshire >
< had a stranger's license to go everywhere — Nadine Gordimer >
b.
(1) : excessive freedom : the abuse of liberties granted
< a wave of municipal reform … for the correction of what was regarded as license — Havelock Ellis >
< Caesar's legions … were enjoying their victory in the license which is miscalled liberty — J.A.Froude >
< freedom of the press also carries the grave responsibility that it not be turned into license — Time >
(2) : abusive disregard for rules of personal conduct : licentiousness
< like most women of that character and those circumstances her license was peculiarly unlimited — Tennessee Williams >
< prenuptial chastity in one tribe and adolescent license in another — Ruth Benedict >
3.
a.
(1) : a right or permission granted in accordance with law by a competent authority to engage in some business or occupation, to do some act, or to engage in some transaction which but for such license would be unlawful
< a license to sell liquor >
< a marriage license >
< a license to practice medicine >
(2) : a document evidencing a license granted
b. : authority or permission of one having no possessory rights in land to do something on that land which would otherwise be unlawful or a trespass — distinguished from lease
c. : the grant by a patent holder to another of any of the rights embodied in the patent short of an assignment of a fractional interest therein and short of assigning all the rights protected by the patent
d. : the grant of some but not all of the rights embraced in a copyright
e. Canada : a free miner's certificate
4. : a deviation from strict fact, form, or rule utilized by an artist or writer on the assumption that it will be permitted for the sake of the advantage or effect gained
< permitting myself a certain license of treatment, the better to round out the picture — S.H.Adams >
< has little truck with those who have taken literary license — D.L.Horner >
5. plural license chiefly Midland
a. : formal permission from local authorities
b. : a document embodying such permission
< get a pair o' license fer to marry — J.W.Riley >
II. transitive verb
also licence \“\
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English licencen, from licence, n.
1.
a. : to grant or issue a license to (someone) usually after special qualifications have been met
< was licensed and later ordained to the ministry — J.C.Brauer >
b. : to permit or authorize especially by formal license
< patented processes were freely licensed in a general effort to do everything and anything to help win the war — Marquis James >
2.
a. : to accord permission or consent to : allow
< at a wedding everybody seemed licensed to kiss everyone else — Irwin Shaw >
< a popular novelist may be licensed to draw on his imagination — A.T.Quiller-Couch >
< an able man licensed by the times to do pretty much as he pleased — J.H.Hanford >
b. [Middle French licencier, from licence, n.] archaic : to give permission for departure to : dismiss
< thus licensed, the chief … left the presence chamber — Sir Walter Scott >
Synonyms: see authorize |
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