Definition of license
- n. - Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act;
especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform
certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such
permission would be illegal; a grant of permission; as, a license to
preach, to practice medicine, to sell gunpowder or intoxicating
liquors.
- n. - The document granting such permission.
- n. - Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of
law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.
- n. - That deviation from strict fact, form, or rule, in which
an artist or writer indulges, assuming that it will be permitted for
the sake of the advantage or effect gained; as, poetic license;
grammatical license, etc.
- v. t. - To permit or authorize by license; to give license to;
as, to license a man to preach.