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licentiate

[ lahy-sen-shee-it, -eyt ]

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.


licentiate

/ ɪˈɛʃɪɪ /

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈԳپٱˌ󾱱, noun
  • ˌԳپˈپDz, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·t·ٱ·󾱱 noun
  • ·t·tDz noun
  • ԴDzl·t·ٱ noun
  • Dzl·t·ٱ adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of licentiate1

1350–1400; < Medieval Latin Գپٳܲ, noun use of past participle of Գپ to authorize. See license, -ate 1
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of licentiate1

C15: from Medieval Latin Գپٳܲ, from Գپ to permit
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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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