[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

licence \licence\ limac"sens, licenced \licenced\, licencee
\licencee\
   same as license, licensed, licensee.
   wordnet 1.5
see also:
license licensed licensee 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

license \li"cense\ limac"sens, n. written also licence.
   f. licence, l. licentia, fr. licere to be permitted, prob.
   orig., to be left free to one; akin to linquere to leave. see
   loan, and cf. illicit, leisure.
   1. 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.
      1913 webster

            to have a license and a leave at london to dwell.
                                                  --p. plowman.
      1913 webster

   2. the document granting such permission. --addison.
      1913 webster

   3. excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of
      law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety.
      1913 webster

            license they mean when they cry liberty. --milton.
      1913 webster

   4. 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.
      1913 webster

   syn: leave; liberty; permission.
        1913 webster
see also:
licence loan illicit leisure 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

licence
     n 1: excessive freedom; lack of due restraint; "when liberty
          becomes license dictatorship is near"- will durant; "the
          intolerable license with which the newspapers
          break...the rules of decorum"- edmund burke syn: license
     2: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable
        rules or practices especially in behavior or speech
        syn: license
     3: a legal document giving official permission to do something
        syn: license, permit
     v : authorize officially; "i am licensed to practice law in this
         state" syn: license, certify ant: decertify
see also:
license permit certify decertify 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

23 moby thesaurus words for "licence":
   authority, authorization, carte blanche, certificate, charter,
   credentials, departure, deviation, dispensation, disregard,
   divergence, entitlement, free choice, freedom, latitude, leave,
   liberty, nonconformity, papers, permission, permit, privilege,
   right

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