LICENTIATE

Licentiate

'Licentiate' is the title of a person who holds an academic degree known as a licence or a licentiate. The term derives from Latin licentia, freedom, which is applied in the phrases licentia docendi meaning permission to teach and licentia ad practicandum signifying someone who holds a certificate of competence to practise a profession. Many countries have degrees with this title, but they may represent different educational levels. In some universities it is a degree between that of bachelor and master or doctor; in some countries it is comparable to a PhD degree.

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licentiate

Noun

  1. A person who holds the academic degree of license.
  2. One who has a licence to exercise a profession.
    a licentiate in medicine or theology
  3. A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy.
  4. One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty.


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