To authorize; permit.
Authority granted to do ro omit an act; also, unrestrained or unwarrantable liberty of actlon.
I paid a fine and didn't even get a mark on my out of state license. – Michelangelo's Shoulder by John Moncure Wetterau
I informed him I had taken out city license, which I supposed entitled me to the privilege of selling. – Twenty Years of Hus'ling by J. P. Johnston