Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
LICENSED
accredited, commissioned, licensed, licenced
(adjective) given official approval to act; “an accredited college”; “commissioned broker”; “licensed pharmacist”; “authorized representative”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
licensed (not comparable)
(of a person or enterprise) having been issued with a licence (by the required authority)
(of a shop or restaurant) allowed to sell alcohol
(of an activity) authorized by licence
(of a product) based on an existing piece of intellectual property and sold under licence.
Antonyms
• unlicensed
Hyponyms
• GPL-licensed
• tri-licensed
Verb
licensed
simple past tense and past participle of license
Anagrams
• declines, silenced
Source: Wiktionary
Li"censed, a.
Definition: Having a license; permitted or authorized by license; as, a licensed victualer; a licensed traffic. Licensed victualer, one who has a license to keep an in or eating house; esp., a victualer who has a license to sell intoxicating liquors.
LICENSE
Li"cense, n. [Written also licence.] Etym: [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. To have a license and a leave at London to dwell. P. Plowman.
2. The document granting such permission. Addison.
3. Excess of liberty; freedom abused, or used in contempt of law or decorum; disregard of law or propriety. License they mean when they cry liberty. Milton.
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.
Syn.
– Leave; liberty; permission.
Li"cense, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Licensed; p. pr. & vb. n. Licensing.]
Definition: To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to license a man to preach. Milton. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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