2. Verb. (third-person singular of licence) ¹
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Definition of Licences
1. licence [v] - See also: licence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Licences
Literary usage of Licences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1907)
"The restrictions which censorship imposed on learning and culture were slightly
relieved by the licences which were granted to possess or to read prohibited ..."
2. History of England from the Accession of James I to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1909)
"He found too, that they were guarded by twenty-three The licences men of war of
their ... that Fielding had not been sent to offer licences at Icle ' all. ..."
3. The Law and Custom of the Constitution by William Reynell Anson (1907)
"But under the head of Excise appears a great variety of licences, ... Some of
these licences are licences to sell commodities or to carry on a trade: the ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Easements by John Leybourn Goddard (1904)
"licences. Revocable and irrevocable licences. A few remarks are demanded in this
chapter relative to revocation of licences. In the early part of this work ..."
5. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1921)
"... hostile relations between belligerents by limited or general licences to trade
granted by a belligerent to enemy subjects. It has been explained above,3 ..."
6. Napoleon's Navigation System: A Study of Trade Control During the by Frank Edgar Melvin (1919)
"This affords no statistics for the results of the year's commerce, but it indicates
clearly the number and character of all licences granted. ..."
7. Shakespeare's Marriage, His Departure from Stratford and Other Incidents in by Joseph William Gray (1905)
"XII MARRIAGE licences OR DISPENSATIONS THE oldest records of licences or dispensations
... licences " are to be found of as early a date as the year 1300, ..."
8. Shakespeare's Marriage, His Departure from Stratford and Other Incidents in by Joseph William Gray (1905)
"licences " are to be found of as early a date as the year 1300, in the library
at Lambeth; and some as early as the twelfth century are in the British ..."
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