Permit
A large pompano (Trachinotus goodei) of the West Indies, Florida, etc. It becomes about three feet long.
The round pompano. (T. falcatus).
To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.
To grant (one) express license or liberty to do an act; to authorize; to give leave; -- followed by an infinitive.
To give over; to resign; to leave; to commit.
To grant permission; to allow.
Warrant; license; leave; permission; specifically, a written license or permission given to a person or persons having authority; as, a permit to land goods subject to duty.
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Permit Quotations
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
John F. Kennedy
There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
Mahatma Gandhi
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Aristotle
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso
Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.
James Madison
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
Saint Teresa of Avila
We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
Sam Levenson
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
Francis of Assisi
Permit Translations
permit in Danish is tillade
permit in Dutch is gedogen, toestaan, toelaten
permit in Finnish is sallia
permit in French is permettre, permets, permettons, permettez, permis
permit in German is Erlaubnisschein, zulassen, zulassen, erlauben
permit in Italian is permettere, permettere, nullaosta, modulo
permit in Latin is sino, licentio, patior
permit in Spanish is permitir, aprobacion, consentir, halo
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