$13 L I C 
This fpecies is fhown on the Elate of Lern^a, &c. at fig. 
19. a, natural fize of the fungi as they lie aggregated; b, 
the fame magnified, with part of the lamina of "the Jlro- 
bilus, or pine-apple ; c, the peridium opened, to fiiow the 
farina ; d, the peridium irregularly cleft; e, an entire pe¬ 
ridium by itfeif; f profile of a peridium opened ; g, lec¬ 
tion of the peridium, to (how the contents. 
7. Licea incarnata: crowded'; flelli-coloured, with a 
fteely glofs; powder at firft white, then flefb-coloured, and 
at length deep rofe-colour. This fpecies feems to (land 
midway between the Licea and Trichia, (another of Al- 
bertini’s genera ;) as its filaments, not very numerous, rife 
above the opened peridium ; yet they do not conftitute a 
true compact head of hair, nor do they expand with elaf- 
ticity at the opening of the mouth. Its place, however, 
was affigned among the Licea on account of its form, ha¬ 
bits, and colour. The young fungi exhibit different 
fliapes, hemifpherical, oval, underlined,.fluxuous, See. ei¬ 
ther nifperfed or aggregated, and confluent. The elegant 
peridium is flefny, lucid, thin, yet hard, brittle, and break¬ 
ing into fragments. The powder is farinaceous; at the 
firft bloom it is - white with a little mixture of pink ; but, 
when in free contact with air, reddening more intensively, 
it turns into a beautiful rofe-colour. It is very rare ; hav¬ 
ing been met with but once, upon naked fir-wood, felled 
and rotting in a damp thicket, about the end of 061 ' her. 
Fig. 20, on the fame Plate, exhibits this fpecies: h, natu¬ 
ral fize ; i, magnified, foir.e unopened, fome opened, with 
the farina; k, a fingle fungus more highly magnified, 
fhowing the capillitium and farina; /, the peridium ready 
to break, and cracked round the circumference previous 
to the fungus emitting its pollen. 
LIQEGNA'NO, a river of Naples, which runs into the 
gulf of Gaeta two miles north-weft of the Volturno. 
LECF.NCE. See License. 
LI'CENSE, or Licence, f. [licentia , Lat. licence, Fr.] 
Exorbitant liberty ; contempt of legal and r.ecefTary re- 
frraint.—Some of the wifer, feeing that a popular licence is 
indeed the many-headed tyranny, prevailed with the reft 
to make Mufidorus their chief. Sidney. 
They baul for freedom in their fenfelefs moods. 
And ftill revolt when truth would fet them free ; 
Licence they mean, when they cry liberty. Milton, 
The privilege that ancient poets claim. 
Now turn'd to licenfe by too juft a name. Rofcommon. 
A grant of permiffion.—We procured a licence of the duke 
of Parma to enter the theatre and gallery. Addifon on Italy. 
.—Liberty ; permiffion.—It is not the manner of the Ro¬ 
mans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is 
accufed have the accufers face to face, and have licence to 
anfwer for himfelf. AEls. —Licenfe is alfo applied to the 
letters, or certificates, taken out in univerfities, whether 
in law’, phyfic, or divinity. Thus, a licenfe in the Sor- 
bonne, denotes a period of two years, which the bache¬ 
lors are obliged to pafs in affifting at acts, and difputing 
in them, to qualify themfelves for being admitted doctors. 
License, in law, is a power or authority given to an¬ 
other to do fome lawful aft. A licenfe is a perfonal power, 
■and cannot be transferred to another: though a licenfe 
may be granted to a man and his affigns. 12 Hen. VII. 25. 
There may be a parol licenfe, as well as by deed in writ¬ 
ing ; but, if it be not for a certain time, it paffes no in- 
tereft. a NelJ. Abr. 1123. By licenfe a man may praftife 
phyfic and furgery in London : iicenfes are alfo neceffary 
for carving on various trades and profeffions, on which a 
duty is laid, for the purpofe of raifing a revenue to go¬ 
vernment. See Excise. 
License (Letter of). See Letter, p. 540. 
License of Marriage. Bifhops have power to grant 
Iicenfes for this purpofe; and parfons marrying any per¬ 
son without publifhing the banns of matrimony, or with¬ 
out licenfe, incur a forfeiture of tool. Sc c. by 7 & 8 W. 
PI. c. 35. See alfo flat. 26 Geo. II. c. 33. See the ar¬ 
ticle Marriage. 
L I C 
License, in Music, Painting, and Poetry, are the 
liberties which are taken in difpenling with the common 
rules and laws of thofe arts. See the refpeftive articles. 
To LFCENSE, v. a. [licencitr , Fr. j To permit by a le¬ 
gal grant: 
Wit’s Titans brav’d the (kies. 
And the prefs groan’d with licens'd blafpnemies. Pope. 
To difmifs ; to fend away. Not in a fe. —He would play 
well, and willingly, at fome games of greateft attention ; 
which (hewed, that when he lifted he could licenfe his 
thoughts. fVotton. 
LI'CENSER,yi A granter of permiffion. 
Licenser of Books. See Liberty of the Press, p. 602. 
LI'CENSING, f. The aft of giving a licenfe. 
LICENTIATE, f. \licenliaius, low Lat.j A man who 
tifes licenfe. Not in ufe. —The licentiates, fomewhat licen- 
tioufly, left they fhould prejudice poetical liberty, will par¬ 
don themfelves for doubling or rejefting a letter, if the 
fenfe fall aptly. Camden. —A degree in Spanifh univer¬ 
fities.—A man might, after that time, fue for the degree 
of licentiate or mafter in this faculty. Ayliffe. — Moft of the 
officers of judicature in Spain are known by no other name 
than that of licentiates. To pafs licentiate in the common 
"law, civil law, or phyfic, they inuft have ftudied feven 
years; in divinity, ten. Chambers.— Licentiate, among us, 
is ufually underftood of a phyfician, w ho has a licenfe to 
praftife, granted him by the college of phyficians. A per- 
fon praftifing phyfic without fuch licenfe, in cafe his pa¬ 
tient dies under his hands, is guilty of felony in the eye 
of the law. 
To LICENTIATE, v.a. [licentier,'l<r.~\ To permit; to 
encourage by licenfe.—We may not hazard either the 
ftifiing of generous inclinations, or the liccntiating of any 
thing that is coarfe. LEJlrange. 
LICEN'TIATING, J. The aft of giving power by li¬ 
cenfe. L'EJlrange. 
LICENTIOUS, adj, SJicentieux, Y;.licentiofus, Lat.] Un- 
reftrained by law or morality : 
How would it touch thee to the quick, 
Should’ft thou but hear I were licentious? 
And that this body, confecrate to thee, 
With ruffian luft fhould be contaminate ? Sha/tefpeare. 
Prefumptuous; unconfined; 
The Tyber, whole licentious waves 
So often overflow’d the neighbouring fields, 
Now runs a fmooth and inoffenfive courfe. Rofcommon. 
LICENTIOUSLY, adv. With too much liberty; with¬ 
out juft reftraint.—The licentiates, fomewhat licentioujly > 
will pardon themfelves. Camden's Remains. 
LICENTIOUSNESS, /. Boundlefs liberty ; contempt 
of juft reftraint.—One error is fo fruitful, as it begetteth 
a thoufand children, if the licentioufnefs thereof be not 
timely reftrained. Raleigh. 
LICF/TO (Fortunio), a phyfician and philofopher, was 
born in 1577 at Rapallo, in the ftate of Genoa, where his 
father was a phyfician. He ftudied at Bologna, and was 
during nine years profeffor of philofophy at Pifa. The 
great reputation he acquired caufed him in 1609 to be in¬ 
vited to the chair of philofophy at Padua, which he oc¬ 
cupied till 1636. He then removed to Bologna, where he 
was profeffor till 1645. In that year he returned to Pa¬ 
dua, to the firft chair of the theory of phyfic, which he 
held, at an advanced falary, till his death in 1657. He 
was an extremely voluminous writer ; and a lift is given 
of fifty-four of his publications, upon medical, philofo- 
phical, moral, antiquarian, and hiftorical, topics, very few 
of w hich are now remembered. In philofophy he was a 
moft zealous Ariftotelian ; and in all points was more dif- 
tinguiflied by erudition than by original refearch or faga- 
city. In a work De Lucernis Anliquarum Rcconditis, he 
ftrongly argues in favour of the fuppofed fecret of incon- 
fumable lamps pofTcffed by the ancients, and relates many 
pretended difeoveries of lepulchral lamps of this kind. 
3 As 
