A legal document giving official permission to do something

Usage examples of license.

I have ventured on a license which Catullus does not admit, but which is, I think, justified by other and earlier specimens of the metre, an anaclasis of the original Ionic a minore at the end of the line.

The doctor who caught Beane would have filed a complaint, and made sure Beane would never get licensed in this state or any other.

Fleming agreed to keep quiet if Beane quit his residency and never tried to get licensed anywhere else.

This lot also has a lot of just plain old regular bimbo boxes with license plates from all the Burbclaves.

First, did either of you see the license plate of the Bimbo Bread truck?

But the ordinance had pretty much cleared the streets of those women who had bought cheaper busking licenses and were using them to cover their other activities.

Anyway, when Dinstable and young Charity applied for the license, Chuffy smelled a rat.

She had a license to practice clairvoyance, but not to practice medicine.

Since losing its Mixed Public License last fall, it had gone to a strictly vamp cliental, and from what I heard, Kisten was actually turning a profit.

Maren Bickers, licensed court reporter and notary public for the county of Oakland, state of Michigan, under contract to Coyne Cose et al.

If I told all I should wound chaste ears, and, besides, all the colours of the painter and all the phrases of the poet could not do justice to the delirium of pleasure, the ecstasy, and the license which passed during that night, while two wax lights burnt dimly on the table like candles before the shrine of a saint.

The envelope held a marriage license for two people named Jean de Courtois and Hermione Beauregard Grandison.

The name I saw on the license was that of Jean de Courtois, an undersized Frenchman whom I know by sight, whereas my unfortunate friend is a living witness to the presence here of a man who must be of powerful build and exceptional strength.

Visitation, when their instruments are consigned, to sit with the Register, and demaunde of every minister their license, whereby you shall deprehend them which you want.

Alas, his piloting instructor, aside from being a demon on rote, had disallowed his request to double his shifts so that he might depart a Common month early with his big-ship license.