licensed

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: li=censed

CIDE DICTIONARY

licensed, a. 

 Having a license; permitted or authorized by license; as, a licensed victualer; a licensed traffic.  [1913 Webster]

Licensed victualer, one who has a license to keep an inn or eating house; esp., a victualer who has a license to sell intoxicating liquors.

THESAURUS

licensed

authorized, chartered, empowered, enfranchised, entitled, excepted, excused, exempt, exempted, favored, franchised, immune, irresponsible, let off, patented, permitted, privileged, released, sanctioned, spared, unaccountable, unanswerable, unliable, unsubject, warranted

ROGET THESAURUS

licensed

Laxity

N laxity, laxness, looseness, slackness, toleration, freedom, anarchy, interregnum, relaxation, loosening, remission, dead letter, brutum fulmen, misrule, license, licentiousness, insubordination, lynch law, nihilism, reign of violence, dethronement, deposition, usurpation, abdication, lax, loose, slack, remiss, weak, relaxed, licensed, reinless, unbridled, anarchical, unauthorized, adespotic.