The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms INTRO ...

liberty to go where I pleased. 3 freedom, licence, initiative,
exemption, exception, privilege: On a strict diet, she allowed
herself no liberties whatever. 4 at liberty. free, uninhibited,
unfettered, unconstrained, unrestricted, unrestrained,
liberated: I was at liberty to do as I pleased. 5 take a
liberty or the liberty or often liberties. be unrestrained or
presumptuous or bold or uninhibited or overfamiliar or forward
or aggressive or impudent or impertinent or audacious or
improper; display or exercise boldness or impropriety or
presumption or presumptuousness or indecorum or unseemliness or
boldness or arrogance: She thought he was taking liberties in
asking her to dance. I took the liberty of asking her to
accompany me.
licence n. 1 leave, permission, liberty, authorization, authority,
entitlement, dispensation, right, carte blanche, freedom,
latitude, free choice, privilege, charter: Merely being
eighteen does not give you licence to do exactly as you please.
2 permit, certificate, credential(s), paper(s): Bring along
your driving licence. 3 disregard, deviation, departure,
nonconformity, non-compliance, divergence: Such grammatical
abnormalities are an exercise of poetic licence.
license v. 1 authorize, allow, permit, certify, sanction, approve,
commission: The government once had the power to license books
for publication. 2 certify, document, accredit, entitle,
validate, enable, empower: Whoever licensed him to drive a car
made a grave mistake.
lie° v. 1 prevaricate, fabricate, misrepresent, invent, commit
perjury, perjure or forswear oneself, Colloq fib: If he says
that I ate the last cake, he's lying.
--n. 2 falsehood, untruth, falsification, misrepresentation,
fiction, invention, prevarication, fib, fabrication, Colloq
story, cock-and-bull story, (tall) tale, whopper, US fish story,
fish tale: His claim of having been attacked was found to be a
lie.
lieý v. 1 recline, stretch out, be prostrate or recumbent or prone
or supine: I'm going to lie down for a nap before dinner. 2
rest, repose; can be found, be, be situated: The book is lying
on the table. The land lies on the Berkshire-Surrey border. 3