licentiate
Americannoun
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a person who has received a license, as from a university, to practice an art or profession.
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the holder of a university degree intermediate between that of bachelor and that of doctor, now confined chiefly to certain continental European universities.
noun
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a person who has received a formal attestation of professional competence to practise a certain profession or teach a certain skill or subject
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a degree between that of bachelor and doctor awarded now only by certain chiefly European universities
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a person who holds this degree
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Presbyterian Church a person holding a licence to preach
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Etymology
Origin of licentiate
1350–1400; < Medieval Latin licentiātus, noun use of past participle of licentiāre to authorize. See license, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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His assistant deputy was the Licentiate Francisco de Molina.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher
Smith holds evidences of qualifications as follows: Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgery, Edinburg; Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow; Licentiate in Midwifery, Edinburg and Glasgow; etc.
From Philosophy of Osteopathy by Still, A. T. (Andrew Taylor)
Licentiate Borg at Stockholm to the Landscape Painter Sell�n at Paris Dear Sell�n,—You have waited a whole year for a letter from me; now I have news to tell you.
From The Red Room by Strindberg, August
A person of the same name was a Licentiate at St. Andrews in 1501.
From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Laing, David
Pedrarias in disgust withdrew from the expedition for a price, which, with the money necessary to send out a second expedition, was furnished through Luque by the Licentiate Espinosa.
From South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure by Brady, Cyrus Townsend
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