licentiate

American  

[lahy-sen-shee-it, -eyt] / laɪˈsɛn ʃi ɪt, -ˌeɪt /

noun

1. a person who has received a license, as from a university, to practice an art or profession.

2. the holder of a university degree intermediate between that of bachelor and that of doctor, now confined chiefly to certain continental European universities.

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licentiate British  

/ laɪˈsɛnʃɪɪt /

noun

1. a person who has received a formal attestation of professional competence to practise a certain profession or teach a certain skill or subject

2. a degree between that of bachelor and doctor awarded now only by certain chiefly European universities

3. a person who holds this degree

4. Presbyterian Church a person holding a licence to preach

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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

Licentiate Nicolas Antonio de Omaña is also a good person, as is Licentiate Manuel Suarez de Olibera, who is serving as auditor-general and my assessor.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXVI, 1636 by Blair, Emma Helen

In the departments of medicine and jurisprudence there are three degrees; those of Bachelor, Licentiate, and Doctor.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina

For the last named, Licentiate Don Francisco Gomez de Arellano, archdeacon of Manila, and provisor of this archbishopric, built a separate room.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

Bonaventure was now a Licentiate, i.e. he was "licensed" or allowed to lecture publicly in view of his qualifications being recognized.

From Saint Bonaventure The Seraphic Doctor Minister-General of the Franciscan Order by Costelloe, Laurence

The curacy of Calavìte was taken possession of by father Fray Diego de la Resurreccion, who took the place of Licentiate Don Juan Pedrosa.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Blair, Emma Helen

Related Words

• alum
• alumna
• alumnus
• doctor
• grad
• recipient