Hypertext Webster Gateway: "licensing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
License \Li"cense\ (l[imac]"sens), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Licensed} (l[imac]"senst); p. pr. & vb. n. {Licensing}.]
To permit or authorize by license; to give license to; as, to
license a man to preach. --Milton. Shak.
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