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
Other Word Forms
- licentiateship noun
- licentiation noun
- nonlicentiate noun
- postlicentiate adjective
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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Still more significant is the case, in 1484, of Jean Laillier, a priest in Paris, a theological licentiate, and an applicant for the doctorate in theology.
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To increase their emoluments, they granted as many honorary distinctions as they could in decency devise, and introduced the categories of bachelors, licentiates, masters, graduates, and non-graduates of surgery.
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He became a licentiate of the College of Physicians on the 30th of September 1756.
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Eight years after the organization of the African Methodist Episcopal Church the membership easily reached 9,888, including 14 elders, 26 deacons, and 101 licentiates, itinerant and local.
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Young licentiates in the older professions all have to pass through a starving time.
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